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Cherubs are purportedly tasked with protecting the lives of living, endangered or suicidal humans, showering them with love to give them a reason to continue to live. These tasks are suggested to be done at the request of the deceased souls residing in Heaven, who want them to live whether they knew them personally or out of gratitude for helping them while alive. From what Keenie implied, they also try to redeem living humans so they can enter Heaven under the assumption that good people are automatically sent there after death.
Unlike the lower-ranking demons such as imps, Cherubs appear capable of generating a portal to travel between the living world and Heaven without any outsidehelp. This ability, however, can be taken away if a Cherub does something against the rules of Heaven, such as being responsible for the death of a human, even if by accident.
There is a hotspot in Heaven for cherubs known as Cherub Towne.
Cultural relations[]
Demons, specifically Imps, have very low opinions on Cherubs. Blitzo refers to them as "Heaven's table scraps". Millie got upset with C.H.E.R.U.B's hypocrisy about I.M.P meddling with the lives of humans despite doing the same. There is an arcade game which demons can shoot Cherub targets.
Cherubs are roughly the size of a human child. They have the bodies of animals, usually of sheep, lamb, bees, deer, or humans of infantile proportions, with pastel color schemes.
Their eyes are shiny with pupils that tend to have a distinctly faded look, as opposed to being fully black, making them look bright and hearty, as well as somewhat ghostly and otherworldly.
Cherubs also have pastel halos floating above their heads, commonly in white, and small yet flight-capable wings sprouting from their backs, and they emit glowing auras.
Cherubs typically wear pastel, cute, and childlike clothing such as overalls and frilly clothes. Most accessorize with ribbons and bowties.
Abilities[]
Flight - All Cherubs are capable of flight via their wings.
Superhuman strength - In the commercial for C.H.E.R.U.B, Keenie is shown lifting a boulder several times her own size with relative ease.
Pyligenesis - Cherubs can open a gateway to travel between Heaven and Earth. However, cherubs who fail to do their responsibilities are unable to re-enter Heaven.
Object manipulation - Cherubs can conjure numerous items in or out of existence. Deerie demonstrated this ability by summoning a pair of reading glasses alongside a clipboard out of thin air, whereas the C.H.E.R.U.B employees erased a makeshift noose that Lyle was preparing to hang himself with.
Weapon summoning - Cherubs can summon holy weapons at will. These weapons appear to be unique to the individual. The lethality of these weapons, and if they are comparable to exorcists'angelic weapons, is unknown.
Telekinesis - Only Deerie, a suggested higher ranking Cherub, has displayed this ability. She used her telekinesis to make a clip board float in the air.
Bioluminescence - Cherubs have a light glowing aura around them, specifically outside of Heaven.
Mortality[]
In "The Full Moon", Keenie mentions that they need to eat to live, implying that Cherubs can starve to death and need to eat to survive. They are also capable of being harmed by human weaponry, displayed when D.H.O.R.K.S. subdued Cletus with a tranquilizer dart, and tased Collin and Keenie with a regular taser.
Gallery[]
Cherub game targets
Trivia[]
In Abrahamic religion, Cherubs (or Cherubim) are one of the many attendants of God with varying roles and are entrusted with all sorts of important duties. The Book of Ezekiel depicts the forms of Cherubs as rather terrifying, but awe-inspiring: they have four wings and four faces (human, bull on the left, lion on the right, and eagle) with hoof-like feet, and having an aura like burning fire while gleaming like copper.
Contrary to their appearance in the Bible, Cherubs are popularly depicted as winged infants in Western media. This depiction was born from Western Renaissance Art using Putti from Greek mythology in paintings that depicted Angels, which Cletus resembles.
Blitzo's comment of Cherubs being "Heaven's table-scraps" may imply the cherubs are in the lower hierarchical rankings of Heaven. While it may match the angelic hierarchy of Jewish texts, this may also be ironic given the Christian Cherubs were considered of exceptional high ranking and closer to God than other angels, second only to Seraphimangels.
There seems to be a ranking system between cherubs, as it is implied Deerie is C.H.E.R.U.B's superior.
The unused lion cherub
The version of Cherubs depicted in Helluva Boss draws more from the pop-culture version of the Angel as winged infants with "cute animal" themes mixed in. The Biblical concept of the Cherubim was noted during the creation process, before it was decided to expand upon the pop-culture versions due to Helluva Boss being a cartoon and didn't have to strictly follow the Biblical depiction.[2]
Other scripture-related animal themes were explored in development, such as lions and donkeys, the former being a reference to the passage, "The Lion and the Lamb".[2] This included a scrapped cherub based on a lion that would have served as the parallel to Loona.[2]
The Cherub game targets are of a bird, fawn, and lion cub.
The trio of Cletus, Collin, and Keenie from C.H.E.R.U.B, are the first cherubs shown to be banished from Heaven. In "The Full Moon", it is shown that they commit petty crimes to survive, but later team up with the members of D.H.O.R.K.S. to get revenge on I.M.P.
Cherubs are the first known subspecies of angels confirmed to have entered Hell outside of the Pride Ring.
It is likely that Lucifer Morningstar has travelled to the other rings of Hell, as is he the ruler of all of Hell, but there has been no on-screen confirmation that he has done so.
