Cherri Bomb (Hazbin Hotel: Journey to the Light)

"So what if I misbehave? It's what everybody craves."

- Cherri Bomb during "Addict".

Cherri Bomb is a supporting protagonist in Hazbin Hotel: Journey to the Light.

Reborn in Hell after her death in the 1980s, Cheri Bomb is a one-eyed radical anarchist widely known for committing crimes and fighting against Hell's authority figures. She is the leader of an army of rebellious sinners and demons known as the Resistance, who oppose and seek to put an end to the tyrannical reign of Hell's authority figures. She is Angel Dust's best friend and partner in crime, with the two accompanying each other in various acts of mischief across Hell, such as anarchy and turf wars. However, when Angel eventually chooses to better himself, Cherri remains loyal to him and begins aiding him, and subsequently the hotel crew, in their goals.

Personality
Daring, bold, haywire, and every bit the spunky powerhouse she claims to be, Cherri Bomb is exceptionally confident and possesses a carefree persona, taking pleasure in partying and engaging in various crimes. She is addicted to explosions about as much as Angel Dust is addicted to drugs, as shown by her hobby of blowing up buildings, and her seemingly limitless stockpile of explosive weaponry ranging from sticky bombs, hand grenades, or rocket launchers. She is enamored by the sight of explosions, and idea of "beautiful" is the sight of a carpet bomb at night. Of anyone in the hotel crew, she is the most eager to engage potential enemies in a fight, and would much rather blow things up and ask questions later. As an anarchist, Cherri possesses great disdain for any form of authority; mob bosses, Overlords, wannabe tyrants, or Hell's corrupt police departments are often the primary targets in her and the Resistance's crime sprees. She also calls out the hypocrisy of Hell supposedly being a realm where rules and authority should be non-existent, yet there are various laws protecting those who rule over Hell.

While Cherri prefers to be laid-back and fun-loving, she is well-known to possess a fiery temper, becoming greatly agitated and enraged whenever she or her allies are attacked. As the series progresses, she tries to learn to remain as calm as she can and not to let her anger issues get the better of her, and when she is needed by her allies, she is there almost immediately. She is quick to her feet to help with missions, big or small, or even just cheer up someone who is going through a mental breakdown.

In contrast to her wild and care-free persona, Cherri is capable of showing a more sensitive side; her friendship with Angel Dust is clearly genuine, as she goes out of her way to stay with Angel and comfort him whenever he is going through traumatic events, such as when he was being verbally or sexually abused continually by Valentino. She also goes out of her way to sabotage Valentino's businesses and operations and provoke him as vengeance for all of the horrible things he has done to Angel. In addition, when Angel confessed to her what he wanted to get clean, she realized that she enabled and encouraged Angel to commit crimes and was overall a negative influence on him. Afterward, she officially announced (in a positive way) that Angel wouldn't be committing crimes with her any more, "most of the time". She is also protective and mostly friendly towards her subordinates in the Resistance, while at the same time being a stern and effective leader. She affectionally calls them her "mates", regularly holds parties with them, and defends them whenever they are injured in battle. At one point, she saved one of her subordinates from being attacked by one of Vox's goons by blowing the goon up with a rocket launcher, and told one of her wounded soldiers to "walk it off", showing signs of being a great leader as well.

Appearance
Cherri Bomb is a cycloptic sinner with long blonde hair that has pink and white accents, a ponytail, and wears a large amount of mascara. Her sclera is bloodshot pink with a pale yellow, X-shaped pupil. She has pale skin with pink freckles on her face and right shoulder. She possesses a sleeve tattoo along her right arm in the imagery of bombs and explosions.

Cherri primarily wears a black, fingerless satin glove on her left arm, a tattered red off-shoulder crop top with an X over the left bust, a black bra underneath, a red, tattered miniskirt with two buttons on the front with one loose suspender, and tattered, black leggings. Lastly, she wears a red boot on her left foot with shite striped on the top, while on the right, a white and red sock, implying that she lost her other boot.

Powers and Abilities
Due to her experience leading the resistance and years of causing wide-spread anarchy across Hell, Cherri Bomb, despite seemingly lacking in unique demonic powers, is quite the spunky powerhouse she claims to be, to the extent that she has been regarded as the "muscle" of the hotel crew.

Natural Powers

 * Demonic Transformation: Whenever she experiences fits of extreme emotions, Cherri Bomb is capable of shifting into a more demonic form, and then shifting back to her normal form at will.
 * Immortality: Having already experienced death, Cherri Bomb lives eternally as an undead soul. She is incapable of dying through conventional or mortal means.
 * Nigh-Invulnerability: As a sinner, Cherri Bomb is exceptionally sturdy and immune to most forms of harm, and possesses an exceptional pain tolerance. She can effortlessly withstand being in point-blank proximity to her own explosions without being injured and can take high, unprotected falls from the top of buildings and get back up, completely fine. After escaping from Pentagram City's police, she didn't even notice that she got shot in the arm until Angel Dust pointed it out. While she was being tortured by Valentino's men, she was tasered several times and beaten with whips and batons, but was stable enough to feign falling unconscious, and just minutes later single-handedly fought off dozens of Valentino's goons with no sign of injury whatsoever.
 * Regeneration: As a sinner, Cherri Bomb can heal from wounds of any severity, this includes being shot, stabbed, melted, or crushed. When she was shot in the arm by one of Pentagram City's police officers, she confidently claimed that the wound would regenerate in no time, which it did. Within an hour, she also healed from a stab wound and gash on her head after being jumped by Valentino's thugs.

Unique Powers

 * Enhanced Strength: Cherri Bomb is deceptively strong for a sinner of her frame. As shown by her skirmishes with Sir Pentious and Valentino's goons, she is capable of defeating other sinners and demons wielding heavy machinery, and is strong enough to break the bones of her assailants. While being tortured by Valentino's goons, she lifted a sinner with her legs in addition to her own bodyweight and snapped his neck, and while escaping from one of Valentino's stronghold, she physically overpowered multiple thugs, ripped a metal door from its hinges and used it as a weapon against a thug, hitting him over the head with enough force to reduce his head to mush, and later flung a fully grown sinner overhead and into three other sinners with enough force to knock them over. While rampaging through the stronghold with a stolen minigun, she casually ran and leaped around with said minigun still in hand, completely unhindered by its weight. After being hand-cuffed to a lead pipe by a paranoid Frgus in Purgatory, Cherri broke free in seconds using sheer brute strength and struck Fergus with with enough force to nearly render him unconscious.

Abilities

 * Athleticism: Cherri can get around easily while traversing or in combat without exhausting herself. She is capable of crossing several long rooftops in the span of a second, climbing the sides of buildings, leaping over her opponents, and bouncing/propelling herself off of walls, all without losing any momentum.
 * Expert Combatant: Cherri Bomb is shown to excel at hand-to-hand combat. Although she has no formal training in hand-to-hand combat, it could be from experience she picked up throughout her years of fighting against Hell's laws. She was capable of defeating Sir Pentious singlehandedly with little effort, and took out dozens of Valentino's henchmen while sabotaging a drug operation. When escaping from her captivity in one of Valentino's strongholds, Cherri was able to take out multiple henchmen unarmed and did not suffer any injuries in the process. While being pursued by Manco's possessed variants in Purgatory, Cherri was able to fight through the hoard despite their vast numbers, with assistance from Angel Dust, Husk, and later Fergus.
 * Expert Marksman: Cherri Bomb is a noteworthy markswoman, as she shot her way out of one of Valentino's strongholds in which she was being kept prisoner, first using a single pistol, then dual-wielding a pair of pistols, and lastly using a minigun she stole from the armory. She also frequently uses a rocket launcher as a weapon.
 * Master Escapologist: After being taken in by Pentagram City's police, Cherri Bomb managed to escape by using smuggled explosives to blow a hole in the wall of her cell. Later, while captured and being tortured by Valentino's henchmen, Cherri escaped by strangling her guard with her thighs, and used the guard's comb to unlock her shackles. In Purgatory, when a paranoid Fergus restrained Cherri by handcuffing her to a nearby pipe, she broke free in roughly ten seconds and utilized said pipe to strike Fergus in the head in order to literally knock some sense into him.
 * Natural Weaponry: Cherri Bomb possesses sharp teeth which she can use as offensive weapons. At one point, she used her teeth to bite the finger off of one of Vox's goons with little difficulty.
 * Pathological Indominable Will: Cherri Bomb possesses an obliviousness to danger that makes her virtually invulnerable to fear and intimidation, as she frequently gets into fights with those who have more numbers and weapons than her, and deliberately provokes powerful Overlords who could kill her easily if they so wished. She was undeterred when she was tortured and (possibly) raped by Valentino's goons, and continued provoking the moth demon despite his warnings. When she was captured by Valentino, she displayed no fear whatsoever while being disparaged by him, and continued mocking him even as his men beat her with every insult. When she, Angel, Fergus, Husk, and Vaggie were interrogated by Lucifer, Cherri was not fazed by the King of Hell's intimidation tactics, and only lost her composure when Lucifer briefly tortured Angel Dust with a knife to get information out of Fergus.
 * Weapon Proficiency: Cherri Bomb is experienced at using many different types of weapons and can adapt to them much quicker than the average person, ranging from firearms, grenades, bazookas, molotov cocktails, sticky bombs, and knives.

Angel Dust
"Cherri Bomb: Glad you haven't changed! (slugs him on the arm) You know you're my favorite mate to party with! Angel Dust: You know it, sugar tits!"

- Cherri Bomb and Angel Dust while battling Sir Pentious.

Angel Dust is Cherri Bomb's closest friend and former partner in crime. The two first met each other when Angel and a group of Valentino's entourage were ambushed by a rival Overlord gang. Angel was nearly killed in the assault, until Cherri Bomb and several Resistance fighters showed up and indirectly saved him by killing the rival gang members. Although the Resistance fights were initially confrontational as they believed he was loyal to Valentino, Cherri Bomb admired Angel's spunky attitude, and subsequently befriended him, growing a strong friendship with him over time and mentoring him in the ways of wielding heavy artillery. However, when Valentino discovered that Angel had befriended the leader of the Resistance and the sinner who had sabotaged many of his sealings and operations, he sent his men to capture Cherri Bomb and bring her to a warehouse. After Cherri was captured, Valentino tasked Angel with killing her to prove his loyalty to him. However, once Valentino handed him a gun to do the job, Angel did not hesitate to try to shoot Valentino, proving that any loyalty he may have had to Valentino was not nearly as strong as his friendship with Cherri.

Cherri Bomb is very supportive and compassionate towards Angel, as she was shown comforting Angel through some of his darkest times, and stayed by his side as he cried. In addition, Cherri Bomb becomes frustrated whenever Angel is harassed and abused by Valentino, which motivates her to further screw with his business, despite the danger of invoking the wrath of someone as influential as Valentino. At one point, Angel attempted to stop Cherri from attacking Valentino's business by telling her that he deserved being punished for disobeying Valentino, which agitated Cherri, who told Angel that he doesn't deserve anything that Valentino had did to him. Until he joined the Happy Hotel, Cherri Bomb was the only person who Angel trusted enough to let her known of his internal struggles. Cherri's bond with Angel was notably strong enough that Cherri was not afraid to insult Lucifer, the King of Hell himself, to his face by furiously calling him a cunt after he tortured Angel while interrogating Fergus, not fearing the consequences of her actions.

Cherri and Angel enjoyed engaging in turf wars, with Angel often assisting Cherri is securing the Resistance's territory, and they always protect each other if one is in danger or gets injured. According to Cherri, Angel is her favorite person to "party" with.

When Angel came to the decision to better himself, he feared that Cherri Bomb would ridicule him, or possibly even sever ties with him, and thus put off telling her about it. To his surprise, Cherri was understanding of his decision and said she would support him all the way. Despite the possibility of losing Angel if he were to successfully reform himself and ascend to Heaven, Cherri stated that it would be worth it as long as he was safe and far away from Valentino.

Fat Nuggets
Cherri shared the same affection Angel had for Fat Nuggets. She was often seen carrying him in her arms, and frequently took selfies of him and posted them on her Voxtagram account, and was shown cuddling with him affectionately while visiting Angel Dust at the Happy Hotel.

When Fat Nuggets was killed by Valentino to hurt Angel Dust, Cherri was visibly devastated, and was shown shedding tears while comforting the incredibly distraught Angel.

Valentino
"Shut the fuck up, Angie! You... You don't deserve anything that piece of shit does to you."

- Cherri Bomb to Angel Dust, after the latter insinuated that he deserved being abused by Valentino.

"Valentino: (Cherri Bomb is dragged over to him by his goons) Cherri... How are ya doing? Cherri Bomb: Eh, could be better. Ha! You look like fucking shit. Valentino: Shut the fuck up, you bitch! Cherri Bomb: I mean, you always look like shit, but, right now, you look like shit took a shit... (giggles) on shit. (one of Valentino's goons strikes her in the abdomen with a baton) Ah! Uh... Fuck! Come on... 'Valentino': That's for fucking with my businesses. I've killed bitches for doing a- Cherri Bomb: Tenth of the shit I've done. Blah, blah, blah. Angie told me all about your games, Val. (Valentino's goon strikes Cherri on the head) Gah! Valentino: As much as I would love, and I mean love, to blow your brains out, or just have Velvet cut you up into tiny pieces, I- Cherri Bomb: You need me alive to lure in Angie and his friends. (giggles) I get it, I get it. Fuck, you're boring."

- Cherri BOmb bantering with Valentino after being captured by him.

Cherri Bomb despises Valentino both for his position as an Overlord, and for him abused Angel Dust, and she makes a hobby out of blowing up billboards, buildings, and other operations with Valentino’s face and business involved, as well as deliberately provoking him by sabotaging his businesses and dealings with his associates, often leaving Valentino greatly enraged. In addition to this, she also goes out of her way to insult him on her Voxtagram account, directly calling him a "lamb fucker" on one of his posts, and telling him to "go fuck a cactus" on a post where Valentino was harassing Angel about his weight.

At one point, Valentino's goons managed to capture Cherri Bomb when she attempted to sabotage his businesses again, and the moth demon attempted to have Angel murder her out of vengeance, as well as to prove Angel's loyalty towards him. Refusing to kill his best friend, Angel refused to kill Cherri and instead turned his gun on Valentino, although his attempt to shoot his pimp failed. After this, Valentino took the time to taunt Cherri while she was captured by telling her that there was no where she could run in Hell where he would not find her. He then had Cherri Bomb tortured by letting his men have their way with her, and then set her free once his men were through with her, but made it clear that he only freed her so that he could continue tormenting her emotionally by abusing Angel and leaving her feeling helpless to prevent him from doing so.

Even after this incident, Cherri Bomb refused to stand down and let her friend be mistreated, and continued to provoke Valentino, even increasing her efforts to sabotage his operations with the Resistance. As a result, Valentino began sending his subordinates out to attack her and her subordinates at the Resistance, although she always managed to fight them off or escape, albeit with minor injuries, although her soldiers were often not so lucky. During the VVV Overlord's encounter with the hotel crew in Butcher Town, Velvet captured Cherri Bomb and brought her to Valentino, where Valentino planned to use her to lure Angel and the Happy Hotel crew into a trap. During her imprisonment, he had Cherri locked away in one of his strongholds, and allowed his men torture her. Despite this, Cherri Bomb ultimately managed to freed herself, killing almost all of Valentino's men who were tasked with watching her, and destroyed the stronghold she was imprisoned in. Later, she aided Angel and the hotel crew in Valentino's temporary defeat.

Sir Pentious
"One of these days, I swear I'm gonna drop kick that old fart right in the fuckin' bollocks!"

- Cherri Bomb after Sir Pentious attacked her, Angel Dust, and Fergus outside of a motel.

Cherri Bomb frequently impedes Sir Pentious' efforts to seize control over Hell by engaging him and the Egg Bois in turf wars to claim territory over Pentagram City, including the Resistance's own territory. Cherri Bomb doesn't appear to not take Sir Pentious very seriously, constantly mocking the snake during their confrontation, although she is often annoyed by his persistence as shown by her announcing her desire to "kick [him in the bollocks]" after the snake and his army attacked her, Angel Dust, and Fergus.

Season 3
"Vaggie: Where is Fergus?! Lucifer: He was being discourteous, so Vox is teaching him some manners. I'm afraid I can't tell you anything else. You'll just have to use your imagination. Cherri Bomb: The only thing I'm imagining is your fat fuckin' head squishing underneath my boot."

- Cherri Bomb insulting Lucifer.

Trivia

 * Her name is a pun on the, a type of pyrotechnic.
 * She is of Australian nationality.
 * Unlike her canon counterpart, this version of Cherri speaks exclusively in an Australian accent.
 * She was in her 20s by the time of her death.
 * In the "Addict" music video, it is implied that Cherri fell in love, and her partner either roped her into drugs and prostitution, or she fell into that life despite his efforts to help her get better. It's also strongly implied that she died of an overdose much like Angel Dust, and thinks that she's come too far and might as well embrace her sins since she believes that she's stuck in Hell for good.