Valentino

**Valentino** is one of the main antagonists of *Hazbin Hotel* who appears as a playable character in *Tekken X Hazbin Hotel*. He is one of the Overlords of Hell, as well as the owner of Porn Studios, making him Angel Dust's boss. Furthermore, Valentino has his extreme hatred toward the Mishima Zaibatsu and Galactic Empire as well as those leaders.

## Biography

Valentino is known as the owner of Porn Studios and boss of Angel Dust, who got Valentino mad at him for not being in his studio for a long time. Day after day, Valentino continues his job at his studio ever since Angel Dust is not being in his studio. Without any sass, Valentino also told him to go back to work, resulting Angel Dust become unsure what he should mainly focus since Angel Dust is also a patient at the Hazbin Hotel. One day, there is a woman who's really interested working at his studio. She is Anna Williams. However when Valentino runs his studio, some of his employees were attacked and severely injured by the Exterminators, Tekken Force soldiers, and Stormtroopers, which are sent out by the Mishima Zaibatsu and Galactic Empire. After this incident, Valentino is very angry. Luckily, some of the G Corporation members, especially Kazuya and Anna, are able to help Valentino against the Mishima Zaibatsu and Galactic Empire. Furthermore, the G Corporation also orders him to destroy the Hazbin Hotel, but he rather goes for infiltrating rather than destroying only in a purpose of capturing Angel Dust. Somehow, some of its staffs constantly block Valentino's way, causing him makes enemies easily. Later that day, Valentino enters the King of Iron Fist Tournament to restore the reputation of his studio and to get revenge against Heihachi, Sir Pentious, and Darth Vader for ruining his reputation.

## Tag Alliance Partners

* Alisa Bosconovitch
* Angel Dust
* Anna Williams
* Brian O'Conner
* Bruce Irvin
* Charlie Morningstar
* Demonic Charlie
* Cherri Bomb
* Darth Vader
* Heihachi Mishima
* Jin Kazama
* Devil Jin
* Judd Whitaker
* Jun Kazama
* Kazuya Mishima
* Devil Kazuya
* Keith Martin
* Lars Alexandersson
* Leo Kliesen
* Ling Xiaoyu
* Master Raven
* Nina Williams
* Oksana Orlovskaya
* Pac-Man
* Paul Phoenix
* Raven
* Shaheen
* Sir Pentious
* Stolas
* Tatsuo Matsumoto
* Vaggie
* Velvette
* Vox
* Yoshimitsu

## Character Relationships

* Angel Dust - He is Angel Dust's sugar daddy and boss at that time they work in the Porn Studios. However, the two later become nemeses.
* Heihachi Mishima - The one who becomes responsible for the Porn Studios employee's injury. They fight each other in the character episode and Valentino defeats him.
* Yoshimitsu - Targeted by him for abusing Angel Dust.
* Shaheen - His enemy. Valentino even gets knocked out by him in Shaheen's character episode.

## Quotes

### Intro

* "*Well, well... What've we got here?*" (against any female opponent)
* "*You're gonna pay for what you've done to my studio!*" (against Darth Vader, Heihachi, or Sir Pentious)
* "*You... what the fuck do you WANT?!*" (against Brian, Christie, Doomguy, Jin, Devil Jin, Judd, Lars, Nina, Paul, Tatsuo, or Yoshimitsu)

## Trivia

### General

* The name "Valentino" means "brave or strong" or can also mean "a ladies' man" in Italy. Given his status as a pimp, it's fitting.
* According to Sam Miller, background artist and HR of SpindleHorse, Valentino was Hispanic when living.
* Valentino has one false golden tooth, a trait he shares with Angel Dust, Crimson, and Striker.

### Tekken X Hazbin Hotel

* Valentino's voice actor is Daniel Southworth, who is best known for voicing Vergil from the *Devil May Cry* series and Eric Myers/Quantum Ranger from *Power Rangers*.
* Before the "ADDICT" music video influence, the biography of him revealed that Angel Dust was originally meant to be friends with Valentino. However after this influence, this friendship was dropped as the music video reveals that Valentino is abusive to him by taking most of the earnings he makes for work and has forcibly kissed and raped Angel several times, enough to give him some form of possible PTSD.
* The following of Valentino's sub-bosses that he will face:
	+ **3rd stage:** Xiaoyu or Pac-Man
	+ **6th stage:** Angel Dust, Lars, Nina, or Shaheen
* If the player uses Valentino, then the 8th stage boss will be Alastor and the 9th stage boss will be Devil Jin.

## References

1. ↑ http://minigmaenigma.tumblr.com/post/624078940817981441