Sir Pentious

: "Who am I? WHO AM I? I am the great Sir Pentious! Inventor, architect of dessstruction, villain extraordinaire!"
: ―Sir Pentious's introduction
Sean Pentious, more commonly known as Sir Pentious, is a former sinner demon and a former antagonist, now one of the main characters who made his debut in the pilot of Hazbin Hotel.
He was a Victorian era demon striving to be modern and cool and has a passion for building steampunk machines of destruction. His goal in the pilot was to conquer Hell using his machines and army of Egg Boiz. He was the second sinner the hotel was attempting to redeem.
After sacrificing himself for his friends in "The Show Must Go On", Sir Pentious was reborn as an Angel and transported to Heaven, becoming the first known sinner to undergo redemption.
== Appearance ==
=== Sinner ===
As a Sinner demon, Sir Pentious had a snake-like appearance with a body color predominantly in charcoal grey. His eyes had cerise sclera with black pupils, and he had a mouth with sharp yellow teeth, two of which were long snake-like fangs. His tail was black with thick yellow stripes featuring numerous cerise eyes running down the length of it. He had a black cobra hood with its front colored yellow with black corners and four cerise eye patterns spread across the center.
Sir Pentious wore a jacket in a matching charcoal grey to his skin, pinstriped with yellow, and a black bow tie with a single cerise eye in the center. Beneath the jacket was a long-sleeved yellow undershirt. He also wore black fingerless gloves with yellow dots on each knuckle and had sharp cerise claws. He accessorized with a large top hat in charcoal grey, which had a sizeable cerise eye in the center of it, as well as many sharp yellow teeth and a pair of goggles. The top hat blinked and changed expressions in unison with Sir Pentious.
=== Angel ===
After his ascension to Heaven as an angel, Sir Pentious retains his snake-like appearance, albeit his body color is predominantly blue. His eyes now have yellow sclera with cerise pupils and he retained his mouth full of sharp yellow teeth with two long snake-like fangs. His tail is light grey with a lighter shade of grey underneath and lacks the eyes his sinner form had. His white cobra hood has its front colored yellow with six jagged points and white tips that have eye-like markings.
Sir Pentious wears a now predominantly white jacket that retained its yellow pinstripes, along with a black bow tie with a cerise heart in the center. Beneath the jacket was a long-sleeved yellow undershirt with a single white eye at the center. He retains his fingerless gloves, albeit now in blue, and sharp cerise claws. He accessorizes with a large white top hat, which has a sizeable yellow eye in the center of it, as well as a pair of yellow heart shaped glasses with cerise pupils, and a white halo floating above.
== Personality ==
Sir Pentious is bombastic, flamboyant, short-tempered, temperamental, and persistent, his personality appearing to take cues from classic "mustache-twirling" stock villains. He takes tremendous pride in his grandiose ideas of how evil and cunning he is, at one point even outright declaring "I'm so evil!".
He uses his mechanical genius to build weapons, such as a cannon and his airship. However, he is more than capable of showing remorse, and has a sense of honor. This is shown when he accepts his defeat and "inevitable death" at the hands of the Hotel staff after being berated by Vox for failing. When Charlie spares him he is appreciative and fully joins her redemption effort. Furthermore, he is enthusiastic in Charlie and Vaggie's activities, more so than Angel Dust, even if it was an act.
He strives to be modern and cool. As noted by Angel Dust, Sir Pentious is oblivious to sexual innuendo and tends to take the things said to him very literally.
He is emotionally attached to his Egg Boiz, bursting into tears over being forced by Vaggie to get rid of them. Humorously, the moment he gets them back he briefly expresses relief, then orders them to make his bed. When it comes to his Egg Boiz, he is used to the fact that they always have said "random nonsense" all the time, causing a big downfall for him and his friends when one of them, Frank, actually said something that was true; that an Angel was killed.
== Powers and Abilities ==
=== Natural Powers ===
* Demonic Transformation ― Sir Pentious had the ability to take on a much larger and demonic Full Demon Form when he went through fits of anger or at his own will, and then effortlessly returned to his normal form.
* Immortality ― Sir Pentious had already experienced death and thus could be killed in the traditional sense, making him effectively undead. When he did "die", he was reborn into Heaven as an angel.
** Nigh-Invulnerability ― As an undead soul, Sir Pentious was eternally youthful and incredibly resilient, which allowed him to survive extreme amounts of punishment, such as being beaten, crushed, and shot, He was capable of surviving the destruction of his airship with him inside, and was uninjured both times Angel Dust shot him with his Tommy gun.
** Regeneration ― Like all sinners, Sir Pentious had the ability from almost every form of attack, regenerating back to his normal form even in the event that he was flattened or completely destroyed, as shown when he ultimately regenerated after Alastor destroyed his airship with him in it, which briefly reduced Pentious to ashes.
=== Unique Powers ===
* Enhanced Senses ― Sir Pentious had red eyes scattered across his body and on his hood, all of which functioned independently, which allowed him to see in different directions.
* Enhanced Strength ― Despite not being among the most physically strong demons of Hell, Sir Pentious nonetheless possessed above-average and quite impressive strength, as he easily tossed Angel Dust around after ensnaring him in a chain.
* Omnidirectional Vision ― Sir Pentious has eyes scattered across his body which allows him to see in different directions.
** Hypnotism ― Sir Pentious is able to hypnotize his victims with the eyes on his hood. This is shown in "Radio Killed the Video Star", however it seems to be rather weak, merely stunning Angel Dust for a few seconds.
* Venomous Bite ― Like Angel Dust, he has the ability to poison his victims with his bite, which can cause them to fall ill. This is shown when he accidentally bites Ara and causes them to fall ill for a week.
* Prehensile Tail ― As demonstrated in the pilot, Sir Pentious can hold, squeeze, and throw things with his tail, including his own Egg Boiz.
** Constriction ― Sir Pentious is able to constrict his victims with his tail. This is demonstrated in the pilot when he squeezes one of the Egg Boiz. Sir Pentious turns this feature into metaphor when he exposits over his plan to take over Hell, claiming that no one would be able to escape from his "constrictive grasp".
* Life Manipulation ― Sir Pentious had the ability to grant life to inanimate objects using his inventions, which he did to create the Egg Boiz.
=== Abilities ===
* Mechanical Engineering ― Sir Pentious has a talent for designing and building extremely advanced machinery.
* Weapon Mastery ― Sir Pentious is able to use his inventions and machinery to his advantage, he is skilled enough to slam Angel Dust to the ground by grappling him with a chain, although he can still be easily defeated by stronger opponents like Alastor.
* Baking ― Sir Pentious is adept at baking, making tasty cookies with form and design.
* Authority ― Sir Pentious commanded an army of minions who followed his orders obediently, named the Egg Boiz.
* Genius-Level Intelligence ― Sir Pentious was a brilliant, Victorian-era inventor, possessing the knowledge and the experience to create weapons of mass destruction, such as his airship, which was equipped with multiple advanced laser cannons, energy blasters, rocket launchers, and flamethrowers. He also created multiple functioning automatons during his life, despite the limits of technology that were present at his time of death. Shortly after being reborn in Hell, he went on to create his minions, the Egg Boiz, with assistance from Baxter. However, Pentious' intelligence did have its limits as he did not understand newer technology and was even shown to be fascinated by a dishwasher.
* Musical Talent ― Sir Pentious could play the piano, kazoo, and harmonica with above-average skill. He was also a gifted singer.
* Natural Weaponry ― Sir Pentious could use his venomous fangs as a weapon for biting and hurting his enemies and intoxicating them. He also had long and sharp claws capable of slicing and cutting skin and could use his long snake-like tail to constrict others.
=== Other Characteristics ===
* Mental Illness and Disorder ― Sir Pentious, like many other characters, is an individual who suffers from mental disorder.
** Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) ― Sir Pentious is autistic, most notably having difficulty with socialization and having a special interest in robotics and engineering.
== Trivia ==
* Sir Pentious' Hogwarts House is Slytherin.
* Sir Pentious' Godly Parent is Hephaestus.
* His name is a play on the word "Serpent". His name also bares a resemblance to 'pretentious', which means attempting to impress by affecting greater importance than is actually possessed, a definition that perfectly describes Pentious' tryhard characterization.
* His theme songs would be "No One Remembers Achmed" from Twisted, "Sk8er Boi" by Avril Lavigne, "Check Yes Juliet" by We The Kings, "Show Me the Meaning of Being Lonely" by the Backstreet Boys , and "Phantom in Your Mind" by Harley Poe.
* Much like Alastor, Pentious hates the way he died, with him insisting that he died in a lab accident, preferring to make himself look incompetent over revealing the true conditions of his death.
* He is fascinated by fidget spinners and often plays with them.
* He was a supporter of child labor, as someone from the Victorian Era.
* He claimed that he was knighted by the Queen in life, hence his name in Hell.
* Sir Pentious' top hat appeared to be alive and often reflected his own emotions, even spontaneously grew a mouth to do so. At one point, Angel Dust even inquired if his hat was alive upon seeing the display.
* He writes with a feather quill as opposed to a pen or pencil.
* Sir Pentious was born on October 1st, 1840.
** This makes him a Libra and makes his Chinese zodiac sign a Rat.
** This also makes him 48 years old at the time of his death, and makes him the oldest member of the hotel chronologically and the second oldest member of the hotel biologically.
*He is a cat person, as shown by him enthusiastically petting KeeKee.
*He used to send "love telegrams" to his high-school crush until she put a restraining order on him.
*He was bullied in school.
*His favorite types of music are love songs, rap, and punk pop.
*Angel Dust claimed that there was a rumor that Sir Pentious had sex with an egg. Because of this, some sinners taunt him by calling him "egg fucker". Though Sir Pentious was embarrassed by this and insisted such an incident never happened, the Egg Boiz chose to view it as a measure of his talent and power that he managed to fornicate with an egg.
*Sir Pentious speaks in a goofy quasi-RP accent tinted with slight Staffordshire tones.
*In the episode "Scrambled Eggs", Vaggie noted that Sir Pentious felt slimy.
**In the same episode, it's revealed that the Egg Boiz live with him in his bed.
*Sir Pentious' introduction in the pilot episode of Hazbin Hotel, during the 666 News report, references the "How do you do, fellow kids?" meme, with Sir Pentious pictured with the same smug expression while holding a skateboard as Steve Buscemi in the referenced meme - originally a scene from the 30 Rock episode "The Tuxedo Begins".
*Sir Pentious being the one sent to double-cross the Hotel residents by spying on them for Vox in "Radio Killed the Video Star" may be a reference to how snakes often symbolize betrayal.
*In "The Show Must Go On", Angel Dust claims that Sir Pentious has two penises. In real life, male snakes have a pair of reproductive organs called hemi-penises.
*Pentious is the first known Sinner to ascend to Heaven in the Hellaverse.
**Sir Pentious, a snake demon, being the first Sinner to ascend to Heaven parallels how Lucifer, who is symbolized by a serpent, was one of the first angels cast down into Hell.
***Ironically, Vivziepop previously drew an angel design for Sir Pentious in one of the developmental streams.
*Sir Pentious' pilot design had an eye on his chest; while it was removed in his finalized design, he regains it in his angelic form.
*According to Vivziepop, another character assisted Sir Pentious in the technological "mass manufacturing" of the Egg Boiz.
**In Season 3, it was revealed that this character was Baxter.
*Despite having sentient eggs working for him, Sir Pentious apparently still does eat eggs himself.
*Vivziepop thinks that Sir Pentious would be a tea-drinking villain, who would genuinely enjoy it, but in an effort to appear cool, would attempt to drink soda in public instead, despite disliking it.
*Much like Alastor, Sir Pentious is against the idea of modern technology. Ironically, Sir Pentious' inventions are among the most advanced technology in the series, often surpassing real world modern technology.
*In the Helluva Boss episode "Murder Family", a drawing of Sir Pentious can be seen beside the drawing of Robo Fizz on a wall of the I.M.P office which is used as one of the targets for Moxxie to shoot with his crossbow. The drawing appears to say "loser" beside him but with the e missing.
**A drawing of Sir Pentious can also be seen in the room of the victim whom they faked their suicide for in the Helluva Boss pilot. Upon closer inspection, said victim is heavily implied to be an animator experiencing crunch time.
*Sir Pentious is autistic.
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