Hazbin Hotel (2024) feels like a demonically empowered Disney musical, with the kind of lyrical turns that would make Danny Elfman jealous. Focusing on the Princess of Hell and her efforts to redeem the souls of the condemned, the Prime Video series is a delightful comedy with catchy music that has developed a rabid fan base.
With Season 2 coming to an exciting conclusion, fans have a long wait ahead of them before Season 3. However, Hazbin Hotel fans have plenty of other great animated shows to check out, which have similar comedic styles and subversive approaches to questions about faith, love, and the universe. All of them have a dark sense of humor and complex emotional core, making them ideal for fans of Hazbin Hotel who are looking for something new on Netflix, HBO Max, and other streamers.
Helluva Boss (2019-Present)
A spin-off of Hazbin Hotel set in the same universe, any fan of the Prime Video smash needs to check out Helluva Boss. Focused on a group of mercenaries who venture from hell into the material world to dispatch targets, Helluva Boss has the same musical core and purposefully offensive sense of humor that defines Hazbin Hotel.
While the other show is about the lore and legacy of hell, Helluva Boss is more focused on the regular demons living day-to-day lives, as well as their various romantic entanglements and issues dealing with hell’s social circles. A faster-paced and more chaotic show than Hazbin Hotel, the similar tone, love for music, and visual aesthetic will give Hazbin Hotel fans plenty to dive into.
Villainous (2017-2021)
Doing for the superhero genre what Hazbin Hotel brings to the supernatural world, Villainous operates with a similar style of subversive comedy. Focused primarily on the minor supports who operate under a mysterious and vile villain, Villainous has the same kind of wacky approach to social commentary that makes Hazbin Hotel so good.
Both shows speak to the challenges of technology and the impact influencer culture can have on people, as well as unexpectedly compelling romantic subplots that offer surprisingly somber turns in their unexpected twists. Villainous may not get as crass as Hazbin Hotel, but it shares a chaotic spirit that puts it more in line with a grim Looney Tunes (2020) cartoon over the more traditional superhero riff like Invincible (2021).
The Legend of Vox Machina (2022-Present)
Hazbin Hotel and The Legend of Vox Machina may have very different animation styles, but their shared love of melding gory action, crass humor, and complex character drama makes them surprisingly effective contrasts. The Legend of Vox Machina is what happens when you fuse the high fantasy of The Lord of the Rings trilogy with the self-aware dark action of Invincible, with a bombastic embrace of the genre’s most epic elements that never stops making fun of itself.
Still, The Legend of Vox Machina embraces some very heavy themes while retaining its sex-and-violence-heavy sense of humor. Both shows may be tackling different genres in different ways, but Vox Machina’s rebellious spirit and crass attitude make it a fun peer to Hazbin Hotel.
Haunted Hotel (2025-Present)
Playing with the same horror aesthetics and goofy comedy that Hazbin Hotel uses to great effect, Haunted Hotel is a surprisingly adorable and consistently hilarious fusion of scary movie tropes and Gravity Falls-esque family adventures. Focusing on a single mother, her children, and her ghostly brother as they manage a cursed hotel, Haunted Hotel leans just as heavily into the aesthetic for dark and goofy comedy as Hazbin Hotel.
Both shows also spend time delving into the inner complexities of their relatively straightforward lead characters. The internal struggles of Charlie Morningstar and Katherine Freeling may be different in their specifics, but they both speak to the internal character strength that these shows share. Fans of Hazbin Hotel, Inside Job (2021), and other subversive genre riffs in the animated space will love this Netflix original.
Panty & Stocking with Garterbelt (2010-2025)
With a similar focus on the supernatural as a way to explore hypocrisy in worlds of faith, Panty & Stocking with Garterbelt takes the sex-heavy humor of Hazbin Hotel and makes it the core element of the show. The anime focuses on Panty and Stocking, a pair of exiled angels stuck on Earth whose efforts to make it back to heaven are constantly complicated by their respective addictions to sex and sweets.
Fueled by the same chaotic spirit and religious parody that makes Hazbin Hotel stand out, Panty & Stocking with Garterbelt pushed the envelope of what animation could get away with in sexualizing concepts of faith decades before Hazbin Hotel sang its first note. A delightful and dark show despite its brightly colored animation, Panty & Stocking with Garterbelt is a delight for fans of anime and Prime Video musicals.
Happy Tree Friends (2000-2016)
If you’re someone who loves the wacky and gory comedy that defines most Hazbin Hotel fight scenes, then you’ll love Happy Tree Friends. A product of the early internet culture, where websites like Newgrounds ruled the message boards, Happy Tree Friends takes the kind of characters who wouldn’t be out of place in a Care Bears (1985) cartoon and fuses them with a horror movie’s worth of gore and guts.
The self-contained shorts are all bizarrely bloody and hilariously gruesome, contrasted against the bright color scheme and cutesy character design. In a similar way to The Cyanide & Happiness Show (2014) or Robot Chicken (2005), the somewhat straightforward animation in Happy Tree Friends underscores the central gag, just like how the fluffy and cute designs in Hazbin Hotel hide a wealth of horrifying depth.
Devil May Cry (2025-Present)
Devil May Cry is just as chaotic and religiously themed as Hazbin Hotel, replacing all the showy musical numbers with chaotic shoot-outs. The video game adaptation focuses on Dante, a freelance half-demon bounty hunter who finds himself facing off with a veritable army of enemies from Earth and hell alike.
Dante would perfectly fit into the world of Hazbin Hotel, as a big dork who also happens to be an incredibly effective fighter, just as willing to trade insults as he is to point a gun at a demon posing as a baby. With a similar thematic arc to Hazbin Hotel and an embrace of wild action set pieces, Devil May Cry is a show that takes the Hazbin Hotel themes and filters them through the action of an action-packed movie like Dragon Ball Super: Super Hero (2023).
Invader ZIM (2001-2006)
Hazbin Hotel’s chaotic, dark sense of comedy and constant genre parodies feel right at home alongside Invader ZIM. A cult classic of Nickelodeon Animation, Invader ZIM was the weirder, more abrasive sibling show to SpongeBob SquarePants (1999). A surprisingly bleak comedy full of social satire, Invader ZIM focuses on the titular alien and his doomed mission to try and take over the Earth.
With a harsh sense of humor and tendency to embrace body horror that fits in well alongside Hazbin Hotel’s sudden bursts of sex and violence, Invader ZIM is a creative ancestor to many modern animated shows—Hazbin Hotel included. Not necessarily for audiences who prefer Hazbin Hotel’s bigger songs and vulnerable emotion to the harsher comedy and gross-out humor, Invader ZIM is still a cult classic that has endured for years.
Superjail! (2007-2014)
Bombastic and even darker than Hazbin Hotel, SuperJail! is one of the meanest comedies of the 21st century. The Adult Swim show focuses on the Warden, a demented Willy Wonka riff who runs an absurdly complicated and gruesomely brutal prison. The show’s grisly flights of fancy are just as inventive and brutal as anything in Hazbin Hotel, albeit with less direct plot.
The largely stand-alone SuperJail! goes for a similar approach to humor, with no subject or style off limits. The result is a cartoon that can be supremely entertaining and endlessly surprising, especially in the later episodes as the creatives begin to experiment with the medium. Similar to the purposefully absurd tone in Aqua Teen Hunger Force (2000), SuperJail! is a bizarre blast with a similar dark sense of humor to Hazbin Hotel.
Harley Quinn (2019-Present)
With a similar central dynamic, Harley Quinn is a perfect show for Hazbin Hotel fans to fall in love with. The R-rated comedy riff on the DC Universe takes The Joker’s classic partner and fully embraces her solo era, focusing on her efforts to become a stand-alone villain and then a hero in her own right.
Along the way, the show infuses a lot of the same sardonic humor that fuels Hazbin Hotel into the world of Batman and Superman, as well as an unapologetically sincere queer romance between its two female leads. Matching Hazbin Hotel in creative cursing and inventive action that never stops being hilarious when it becomes emotional, Harley Quinn is a delight in the same way that Hazbin Hotel is.
