Moxxie

: "I spent my whole life of being afraid of you, but I'm not giving up the only good thing I've ever had just so you can keep your fragile little sense of control over everything. Millie is a good woman, a better woman than I deserve. And there's nothing that scares me more than hurting her, not even you."
: ―Moxxie, standing up to his father
Moxxie Knolastname is an assassin at I.M.P, Millie's husband and one of the main protagonists of Helluva Boss.
He is the straight man weapons expert of the I.M.P gang who tends to be the most rational of the group, but is often treated as the butt of the joke.
== Appearance ==
Moxxie is an imp with red skin and white freckles on his cheeks. His white pointy hair leads up to his curvy black and white striped horns. He also has yellow sclera with black slit pupils. Moxxie has a long red thin tail with a quadrilateral barb at the end, as well as lanky digitigrade legs ending in what appears to be cloven red hooves, reminiscent of artiodactyls.
Moxxie's usual outfit consists of a navy-black coat with red buttons and white cuffs, black pants a white shirt that has a black turtleneck, a large red bow-tie, and fingerless gloves.
== Personality ==
Moxxie is the I.M.P's weapon specialist; and as such, has a vast knowledge of weapons and often brings a variety of them along during jobs.
He is often the most vocal and realistic of the employees regarding the company as a whole despite its dysfunctional environment and is bullied consequently.
He is also shown to be insured about himself since he’s not physically strong since Striker, Lin and Joe was giving him a hard time since they believe physical strength is what makes a person strong.
Moreover, he is an imp who is easily annoyed and rather clumsy, as he trips over their ritualistic book on the way through the portal to the living world.
Despite being a murder-for-hire imp, it seems Moxxie is queasy with unnecessary killing beyond their targets. He also is uncomfortable with the idea of killing targets who have families, and attempts to give people second chances, as seen in "Murder Family".
Moxxie is also shown to have a comical side, as when he talks about killing an entire family, he claims it might be alright if it was just a shitty dad or a mob family, saying "That's understandable" in an accent.
When finding out Blitzo used to date Verosika Mayday, he asked if she had suffered blindness or brain damage, implying that a pop star such as her wouldn't usually date Blitzo unless they had some form of mental disability.
When intoxicated, he loses all common sense and becomes quite delusional, as shown when he asks Millie why she has "four heads", and high-fived her instead of grabbing her hand straightaway. He also is shown to become increasingly flirtatious with her when drunk.
== Powers and Abilities ==
=== Natural Powers ===
* Enhanced Durability ― Moxxie is unusually tough and can tank extreme punishment without dying, as he repeatedly ends up injured at varying levels of intensity, from concussions to being completely crushed. Miraculously, he manages to survive and shake off all of these punishments, albeit incredibly angry, or at least annoyed, that it happened at all.
* Thermal Resistance ― Like all imps, Moxxie is capable of being lit completely on fire and suffering no injuries whatsoever, nor is he hindered from the effects of being lit aflame. When Striker seemingly accidentally lit Moxxie's arm on fire while breathing flames onto a pile of sticks, Moxxie was only concerned about his suit being ruined, instead of being harmed by the flames.
=== Unique Powers ===
* Hammerspace ― Moxxie apparently has the ability to make anything he wears hold a lot more inside than what should be physically possible. He carries an entire armory of weapons and various equipment - from heavy firearms, flamethrowers, gas masks, and telescopes - inside of his coat, pulling them out one after the other despite how the combined size and weight for all of them once present is bigger than his entire body. During his trip to Loo Loo Land, the fanny pack Moxxie was carrying around was capable of holding pill bottles full of antacids, ibuprofen, and a bunch of morphine syringes that were bigger overall than the bag even without the aforementioned bottles.
* Enhanced Agility ― Moxxie has shown a considerable amount of agility, being able to execute quick movements with his legs and his tail.
=== Abilities ===
* Musical Talent ― Moxxie is a gifted singer and guitar player.
* Bilingualism ― In addition to English, Moxxie is also fluent in a little Yiddish.
* Acrobatics ― Moxxie is nimble and agile in terms of fighting, as he swiftly dodged all the arrows shot at him while swinging away on a strand of rope to intervene in Keenie and Millie's fighting.
* Songwriting ― Moxxie is able to compose music, having written "Oh, Millie" in honor of his wife.
* Weapon Proficiency ― Moxxie is proficient in the use of several weapons, most especially sniper rifles.
* Master Tactician ― Moxxie is very intelligent when it comes to strategy and is the primary strategist of I.M.P. He knows how to effectively use his and I.M.P's resources.
* Natural Weaponry ― Moxxie possesses a prehensile tail that he can use to grab small objects as well as a dangle from surfaces. He also possesses sharp teeth also useful as weapons.
* Stealth Mastery ― Moxxie is a stealth expert capable of infiltrating and escaping even the most heavily guarded of places without being caught.
=== Weapons ===
* Blessed Handgun ― Moxxie acquired a handgun of angelic properties.
* Carmine-Crafted Blessing-Tipped Rifle ― Moxxie briefly used Striker's own blessing-tipped sniper rifle against him to hold him at gunpoint, although the rifle was knocked out of his hands unintentionally by Loona.
* Colt M1911A1 Pistols ― Moxxie uses two identical Glock pistols, sometimes fitted with suppressors, as his primary weapons to fight his opponents or hunt his targets.
* Crossbow ― Moxxie often employs a crossbow when in stealth or long-range situations
* Flamethrower ― Moxxie owns a flamethrower that he can use to immolate I.M.P's victims.
* Gas Grenades ― Moxxie occasionally employs small canisters that release irritating or lethal fumes. The fumes cause severe coughing and difficulty breathing, followed by death shortly after.
* Hunting Knife ― Moxxie very rarely uses a serrated hunting knife in combat situations as a last resort.
* LWRC SMG46 ― Moxxie's preferred machine gun, most often while engaging in combat.
* M1921 Thompson Machine Gun ― Moxxie carries a Thompson machine gun as one of his many available weapons on the job.
* Marlin Model 1898 Shotgun ― Moxxie used this shotgun to hold Ralphie and his children at gun-point, although he did not use it to kill them.
* Remington 887 Shotgun ― Moxxie was given this weapon by Blitzø to kill several D.H.O.R.K. agents.
* Revolvers ― Moxxie carries around three revolvers, one beige, one dark, and one gold, when on the job. While fighting D.H.O.R.K.S and the Egg Bois with I.M.P, Moxxie dual-wielded two golden revolvers against their assailants.
* Sniper Rifle ― Moxxie's secondary weapon is a scoped sniper rifle which allows him to kill his targets from a long range.
=== Equipment ===
* Binoculars ― Moxxie employs binoculars to spy on his targets and their activities from a far distance.
* Gas Mask ― Moxxie owns a gas mask used to protect his face and eyes from the intense heat of his flamethrower as well as to protect himself from the fumes of his gas grenades.
== Songs ==
=== Season 0 ===
* Oh Millie ― Duet with Millie; Season 0, Episode 1 - "Helluva Boss Pilot"
=== Season 1 ===
* Moxxie's Bad Trip ― Duet with Blitzo; Season 1, Episode 6 - "Truth Seekers"
* House of Asmodeus ― Group Song with Asmodeus, Blitzo, Fizzarolli, Verosika, and Wally Wackford; Season 1, Episode 7 - "Ozzie's"
=== Season 2 ===
* Everybody Look At Me! ― Solo; Season 2, Episode 5 - "Unhappy Campers"
== Trivia ==
* Moxxie's Godly Parent is Apollo.
* Moxxie's Hogwarts House is Hufflepuff.
* Moxxie's name is based on the word "moxie" which means "to have fighting spirit".
* Moxxie's surname, Knolastname, is a play on words on "Know" and "no last name".
* Moxxie was born on September 8th, 1997, making him 27 years old.
** This makes him a Virgo and makes his Chinese zodiac sign an Ox.
* He shares the same voice actor as his own father, Eddie, and the Carnival Imp from "Loo Loo Land", with the four being voiced by Richard Horvitz.
* Moxxie seems to be a fan of the hit musical The Phantom of the Opera as his phone ringtone plays the pipe organ and suffered from a hallucination that heavily referenced the play. He also wondered what sex with Michael Crawford, the actor who originated the role of The Phantom, would be like.
* In the Helluva Boss pilot he had a framed sheet with a domino mask and a rose pictured on it above his nightstand in his apartment.
** Notably, the sheet says "PAYBILL". This might be an oversight that was supposed to say "PLAYBILL" as masks and roses are common imagery used for theater. It could also be a copyright avoidant reference to the musical's Playbill cover.
* He also dressed as the Phantom for Halloween in a post from the Sinstagram stories.
* Moxxie's entire character heavily bears a musician-like theme, as he can sing and play guitar, has a framed music award, has an alarm clock with a musical note on it, and his bedroom and living room wallpaper have musical notes on them.
** Moxxie's suit is likely a conductor's suit as it has penguin tails, and a bow-tie.
* Moxxie does not swear as often as the others, when in a bad situation he often uses the comparatively tame phrase "Oh, crumbs".
* Moxxie is susceptible to motion sickness, as shown by him vomiting after riding the roller coaster "The Lawsuit" at Loo Loo Land, and first shown in the Helluva Boss pilot where he appeared nauseous riding a shark in one of the images during the I.M.P Jingle.
* In "Loo Loo Land", Moxxie is freaked out by theme park mascots, believing them to be perverts under their costumes.
* As shown in "The Harvest Moon Festival", Moxxie is at a disadvantage when it comes to close combat, as opposed to his usual fighting style of ranged combat.
** This seems to have changed since then as seen in "Western Energy" when he takes down three bikers, each larger than himself, with ease.
* In "Truth Seekers", Moxxie exclaims "Oy, gevalt!" which roughly translates to "Oh, violence!" in Yiddish, suggesting he knows partial Yiddish.
** He also mentions that coffee orders would often misspell his name, like putting Roxie or Foxy, which was first foreshadowed on his Sinstagram.
* It is revealed in "Ozzie's" that he and Millie have been married for a year. With the premiere date of the episode being approximately a year apart from the series' first episode, "Murder Family".
** In "Exes and Oohs" it was revealed on Moxxie's Sinstagram that Millie took his last name after they got married.
* Moxxie values his mother's side of his heritage more than his father's.
* Moxxie was born in the Wrath ring but was raised in the Greed ring.
* It is shown in "Exes and Oohs" on Moxxie's Sinstagram that he is friends with demons named Randal, Oliver and Steve. Randal being the name of Richard Horvitz's real life friend who broke his leg.
** It's also shown that Oliver told Randal to break a leg, to wish him good luck, only for him to actually break his leg, which caused Oliver to be the one to perform in Randal's place.
* Moxxie is left-handed.
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