God (Hazbin Hotel: Journey to the Light)

"Surround yourself with people who will lift you up. - So ditch your loser friends who you can't use."

- A quote on a "motivational" poster seen in Heaven, presumably stated by God Himself.

God is the unseen overarching protagonist of Hazbin Hotel: Journey to the Light.

God is the enigmatic sovereign of Heaven, and the ruler of all creation. He is an infinitely powerful and divine entity who was responsible for the creation of the cosmos and all of its lifeforms, and is often interpreted as the physical manifestation of creation itself.

Very little is actually known about God Himself, as, especially in modern times, very few have ever had the luxury of seeing Him, and even fewer have conversed with Him. He is said to reside within the most secretive and protected section of Heaven, where He keeps a keen and all-seeing eye over all of His creations, including realms such as Hell and Purgatory. Although God works in very mysterious ways, He is implied to have assisted the Happy Hotel crew in very subtle ways, such as possibly being the one who bestowed Heaven's Light upon Charlie Magne.

The Beginning
In the beginning of creation, God created great entities of incomparable light to reside with Him in a void in space. Longing for relationships with lesser beings, God decreed to His creations that the universe was to be built and populated by life. The Beings of Light agreed to His decision, all except for one, Satan, who was known to be against the idea of life. Satan refused to carry out God's orders, and proceeded to go on a misanthropic ramble about how the Universe would be better off without mortals. The Beings of Light refused to listen to Satan, which left the Devil with a feeling of hatred and humiliation. Satan left the council in rage, promising that it would return and make the Beings of Light regret their decision. Shortly after this, God sent the Beings of Light to begin constructing the Universe, while He laid the foundations of Heaven.

Creating His sons and Heaven's Light
Shortly after the creation of Heaven, God created seven angels who would act as the deity's sons. One of these angels, Lucifer, would grow to become God's most beloved angel in existence, as well as the most powerful. God would then create an orb-like object of divine energy called Heaven's Light. The mythical object was capable of turning into a sun, and is potentially capable of saving those with damned or corrupted souls.

Creation of Humanity/Fallout with Lucifer
After the foundations of Heaven were laid, God created the Earth, and then He created humanity. According to Dr. Eugalp, God personally assigned Archangel Forti to protect Heaven and His cherished creations, as well as commanding the archangel to lead Heaven's army against those who sought to threaten the deity or the moral plane.

After humanity had been created, God commanded all of His angels to bow down to humanity, shelter them from all evil, and present more compassion toward them than to Himself. While all of Heaven's angels followed God's command without question and swore to protect His creations, Lucifer disobeyed God's order and was left puzzled with God's decision. The prideful archangel saw humans as nothing more than murderous "insects" who were unworthy in comparison to his own perfection, and questioned why God would order His angels to worship humanity, rather than Lucifer himself. Lucifer concluded that as long as his Father reigned over Heaven, he would never rule over the Universe. Believing that he was more worthy of ruling all creation than God Himself, Lucifer decided to do whatever it took to overthrow his Father and claim the title of God for himself.

War in Heaven
When Lucifer and Satan attacked Heaven and the Universe, God rose up to personally stop Lucifer and his amassed army of fallen angels. God declared that Lucifer and his followers were to be banished to the realm of Hell for their crimes and never escape, so they may never harm an innocent ever again. With a golden wave of magic, God banished Lucifer and all who followed him into rebellion to Hell, stripping Lucifer's followers of their angelic forms and power in the process and transforming them into demons. After Satan and the Army of Darkness were imprisoned in Purgatory, God constructed the seven seals of Purgatory in order to ensure that the Devil would never escape, and tasked a group of cherubs with guarding the realm to prevent anything from escaping.

Following this, God presumably returned to His role of watching over the Universe.

Season 1
In "Gift from God", Charlie, in an act of desperation, prays to God after being confronted by Lucifer about her dreams of redeeming sinners. Charlie tearfully begs God to help her in any way He can, as she sees herself as powerless against her father. Although nothing happens at first after Charlie finishes her prayer, Charlie soon sees a mysterious comet of light fall down from the sky, landing in the outskirts of Hell. When Charlie goes to investigate, she discovers a small, mysterious, white ball of energy.

In "Deal with the Devil", Charlie takes the ball of energy to Dr. Eugalp in hopes of finding out about its origins. Dr. Eugalp reveals to Charlie that the ball of energy is Heaven's Light, which he at first believed to be merely legend. He also reveals that Heaven's Light is capable of saving damned or corrupted souls. When Charlie leaves Eugalp's office, she is extremely elated by the news, excitedly celebrating later at the Happy Hotel. She then looks up at Heaven from Hell, and thanks God for giving her a chance.

Season 3
In "The Deadly Ground", God is seen as a silhouette in the beginning of Lucifer's villainous musical number.

Personality
"Our God is an awesome God He reigns from Heaven above With wisdom, power, and love Our God is an awesome God!"

- The cherubs singing their own rendition of Our God is an Awesome God.

Perhaps the most mysterious entity in the entire series, almost nothing is known about God's true personality. The angels of Heaven, such as Forti, Adina, and the C.H.E.R.U.B, proclaim God to be a very wise and benevolent being who wishes to spread love and peace throughout the Universe. However, other characters who have personally met Him, such as Lucifer and Satan, claim that God is an incompetent, paranoid, egomaniac, genocidal, and tyrannical deity who is solely motivated by gaining power and preserving His domain at all costs, willing to commit genocide and mass murder against His enemies and demons by sending the Exterminators to cull Hell's population at the end of every year. Furthermore, there is a "motivational" poster seen in Collin's office within Heaven where God encourages people to ditch their "loser friends" who they can't manipulate and use (a reference to Lucifer), further hinting that God is as nefarious as Lucifer claims Him to be, although it could have just been a blunt and crude way of encouraging others to cut toxic people out of their lives.

On the other hand, there are certain things that imply that God is the exact opposite of what Lucifer and Satan claim Him to be; even when Lucifer betrayed Him by turning thousands of angels against Him, killing his brothers and God's sons, and weighing war against the Almighty, God did not kill Lucifer or his followers, and merely banished them to Hell as a punishment. In addition, while Lucifer and Satan claim that God hates sinners, demons, and all creatures of similar nature, as they represent everything He despises, God might actually support Charlie in her goals to redeem sinners, as it is heavily implied that He was the one who sent Heaven's Light to Charlie, presumably after He heard Charlie's desperate prayer to him, seemingly wanting Charlie to succeed in her dreams and possibly join Him in Heaven.

Powers and Abilities
Being the oldest and strongest entity in existence, God possesses immense power, allowing Him to do almost anything He wished. It is known that God is immeasurably more powerful than any angel, and is likely more powerful than all of the Beings of Light, which are stated to be the strongest entities He made. In addition, as the God of the Universe, God has created a large number of planets, galaxies, and entire dimensions controlling the nature of each according to His plans and whims. Despite His immense power, it is implied that God isn't entirely all-powerful, as Forti has expressed concern over Lucifer's plan to overthrow God, and the army he has amassed against his Father, implying that it is possible to overthrow and potentially bring about His end.

Powers

 * Divinity: As the Supreme being of the Universe, God possesses unlimited divine power that greatly surpasses the divine powers of the archangels and the Beings of Light, most of whom He personally created.
 * Creation: God, as the Creator of everything, is capable of effortlessly creating an unlimited amount of anything He desires, as He was believed to have been behind the creation of the sacred dimension of Heaven, His seven sons, and the archangels. The immensity of God's creation was shown by His ability to create other entities who were capable of forging multiple planes of existence, including Hell, Heaven, Purgatory and much of the physical Universe containing billions of galaxies, as well as potentially other realities.
 * Dimensional Travel Removal: Shortly after the War on Heaven, God prevented Lucifer from entering Heaven and the mortal plane by enchanting both realms. Later, He created the seven seals to block Purgatory from being accessed by anyone He deemed unworthy, which also made it nigh-impossible for all within to escape. As a result of God's magic, only archangels, cherubs, and immensely powerful entities such as Death can enter and exit Purgatory.
 * Immortality: God, as the first entity to exist, is infinitely immortal. Age, as well as any disease and weapon, were completely powerless against Him. Regardless, it is implied that God is not completely immortal, as Lucifer, who knows more about God than anyone in the Universe (besides Forti), believes that He can be killed.
 * Omnipotence: As the Creator, Lord, and God of the universe, God possess power beyond every comprehension and is seemingly capable of doing absolutely anything he desires, from creating nigh-omnipotent and omniscient entities from nothing, to constructing entire planes of existence without much effort. His power is to the extent that nigh-omnipotent entities such as Satan, Lucifer, and Death are unable to challenge Him alone. Although, despite his indescribable power, there is a chance that God is not completely all-powerful and even He could potentially be killed, given the reaction of Forti to the plan of Lucifer, and the fact that Lucifer himself believes that God could be truly killed.
 * Power Granting: God is capable of creating entities who possess immense, potentially night-omnipotent power, as the archangels, the angels of Heaven, and the Beings of Light all gained their divine powers when God created them.
 * Power Removal: God can remove entities of the powers He has bestowed upon them. At the end of the War in Heaven, He removed the angelic power of Fergus and Lucifer's entire army after banishing them to Hell along with their master.
 * Transmutation: God can change and manipulate the physical form of other entities at His will, as displayed when he corrupted Lucifer's true form to cast His son's wickedness on his outward appearance, stripping Lucifer of his beauty and revealing him as the monster he truly was.

Abilities

 * Intimidation: Due to His immeasurable power, God is a naturally terrifying being to His enemies, wielding such immense power that He was able to effortlessly cast Lucifer and his entire army to Hell with one motion of His hand. Lucifer, for all his arrogant bluster, seems to be genuinely afraid of facing his Father alone, and as such, he employs the Overlords, Satan, the Army of Darkness, and eventually Charlie in his ultimate plan to kill God.
 * Universal Dominion: As the creator of existence, God holds supreme dominion over Heaven, the Universe, and all creation. The angels of Heaven, as well as the Beings of Light, are shown to carry immense respect for God's authority and follow His laws to the letter, as shown when most angels swore to protect and love humanity more than God Himself, without question, when He ordered them to. His dominion extends beyond Heaven, as supernatural entities alien to Heaven, such as Death, are also shown to carry a level of respect for God's authority. If the Exterminations are any evidence, God also possesses power over Hell as he sends the Exterminators to massacre a large portion of Hell's populace to prevent overpopulation.

Trivia

 * The series' creators have stated that the God in Hazbin Hotel: Journey to the Light is not anything like how God is traditionally depicted in the Bible or pop-culture, and will instead focus on the creators' own musings on what the nature of God and the Universe to be.
 * According to Forti, God knows Charlie very well and has observed her since she was born.
 * According to the creator of the series, Jim Miller, God's theme song, if He were to have one, would be "You're Welcome" from the Disney film Moana.