Lyle Lipton

"Heaven?! You don't make millions in technological advances in robotics by not experimenting on the poor!"

- Lyle Lipton, explaining why he is in Hell

Lyle Lipton is the co-founder of Lyle-Loopty Robotics and was I.M.P's target in his debut episode, "C.H.E.R.U.B".

He is the co-worker of Loopty Goopty and a minor character in Helluva Boss.

Appearance
Prior to the aging machine mishap, Lyle was a rather short man with a mustache and indeterminate hair color, with two tufts of hair poking up towards the back.

He wore dark gloves, an overcoat, some light colored goggles with spirals on them and what could be a tank top under the coat with brown pants and boots.

After the mishap his nose and head underwent rather massive growths easily doubling in size. His mustache is all that remains of his hair, which is now light grey. As an elderly man, he wore a pale blue shirt and a diaper.

In his demon form, Lyle acquired a robotic appearance with a round, spherical body with his head on top and arms on his sides. He wears a light green vest with a dark outline on top and one button on the front, a dark bowler hat with a red stripe, and a pair of light green gloves on his hands.

He has mint-green skin with a red triangular patch on his chin, a large bushy light grey mustache, and a pair of red pince-nez goggles with dark red spirals on the lens. With his lower half being a ball and lacking legs, he gets around simply by rolling. His teeth resemble that of piano keys.

Personality
As described by Moxxie, Lyle is a selfish, greedy and authoritarian capitalist. His greed is so great that, when he at first was ready to die, Lyle had a stock photo of money that he said goodbye to. He has little to no care about other things, especially when it comes to experimenting upon poor people and despises children, despite admiring their innocence at times.

At first, he is suicidal and unwilling to live with his old body before the intervention of C.H.E.R.U.B. In the end he saw the value in life after watching the cherubs and imps fight, realizing his life must be worth something if supernatural beings were fighting over it.

While appearing to show some affection towards a few of the concepts C.H.E.R.U.B showed him, such as children indulging in innocence and romance, he ultimately could not overcome his sense of greed.

Skillset

 * Wide Intellect - Lyle is shown to be quite the genius, as he and his business partner invented an anti-aging machine, and co-founded a company that eventually grew into a technological empire.

Gallery

 * Lyle Lipton/Gallery

Trivia

 * Lyle's demon form resembles that of Bigweld from the movie . He also partly resembles Dr. Eggman from the Sonic the Hedgehog franchise.
 * Lyle's demon teeth being piano keys is a nod to his cause of death.
 * It is also a possible reference to classic cartoons where a character, crushed by a piano, is then seen with keys having replaced their teeth.
 * Similar to Alastor, he and Loopty Goopty both still retain their human names upon arriving in Hell.
 * Coincidentally, Brandon Rogers had a character with the same first-name, Lyle Lemon (portrayed by Jack Plotnick), in his A Day at the Beach video.