Im pretty sure the Wendigo thing was on the table, since the guy was originally a serial killer and canniball (which I wonder even if that thing was kept or was removed. Since, sure we saw him eat the lonesharks, but I dont think the canniball thing was ever confirmed, hell we even see him eating a deer in his room)
I'd say there are definitely traces of that in Helluva, given how the main characters (minus Moxxie) seem to look down on humanity and see them as monsters – I think it was in S1E1 where either Blitzo or Millie tell Moxxie that "all humans are fucked up, so it's okay to kill them" (roughly paraphrasing). Then there's the first Verosika episode, where innocent people are killed by the dozens.
Considering how much people were going “meh meh muh closed religion” over Alastor using voodoo, I can only imagine the backlash if he were canonically a wendigo. Thanks to so many misconceptions, such as thinking it’s a sacred spirit or mixing it up with a skinwalker, or just plain being a Native American thing, a lot of people will jump your ass for using one in your story.
In my artschool it was like that too. Everyone loved Viv and would use her as inspiration. We had a guy come in use to work for Disney and made his own short that recently got really popular and used Viv as his inspiration and said they were friends. I was the one that got alot of peers disillusioned of her work and showed them videos and art she stole as a wake up call.
Really, you can make a list of things that were scrapped or removed entirely. Alastor using voodoo and being a Wendigo; Angel Dust being in the mob and serving in WW2; Baxter drowning on the Titanic; Vaggie being from the slums of Rio...or was it Mexico; Nifty being Japanese; Husk being Russian; Vox being a former televagenlist type or something to that extent, Adam as a motherfucking DRAGON.
That's funny because it's the opposite for my art school where it seemed like everyone, including a few of the professors would openly shit on Viv's work. I remember when the Hazbin trailer came out with Charlie's "Happy Day in Hell" song, and a group of us were making fun of how terrible it looked. One girl couldn't even watch it because the camera work was that nauseating.
I want all of those things...
It's mainly the peers who were into it. None of the professors had known of it till their students mentioned it. I feel like my school it was very extremely progressive, which is saying alot because it's a blue state (and always has stayed on regardless of elections) it's a very white school. And as a minority alot of my work was criticized because it dealt with issues of race and prejudice and professors told me it might make others uncomfortable, which was saying alot because it's not like the words or anything really hurt them as a white person. My work often dealt with trying to keep historical timeperiods accurate and how people were treated in early America.
That was S1E1, not the pilot.
Yes I know. I was talking about that, not the pilot. I wasn't in art school when the pilot came out.
Its kinda funny how Husk seems like less guy who should be here, like even in the new version he was a gambler and drunk but because he lost his wife'n'kid in a hit and run, the old version I think he was a small time loan shark or something (it was def something to do with crime, as one of the removed episodes was him, Charlie and Nifty going to a carnival and Husk admitting he forgot how to even have fun, since he did so many crimes before), but when it comes to others -Angel Dust being a mobster, Alastor a serial killer, Cherrie Bomb being a mad bomber (FYI I think she was supposed to be former IRA originally)- the guys entire apperance there makes ya go "Wait, WHY are you here?" Kinda how with Pentiouses current backstory.
Nothing like being anti-racist by targeting people of a specific racial makeup. That or he's really into this
Viv decided to make Cherri shortly after her pilot VA already recorded her lines. The initial plan was to have her do a light accent or to have slip out on occasion to explain why she didn't have one in the pilot...
Pretty certain that all backstories, with the exception of Pentious and Alastor thanks to the leaks, and broadstrokes to Angel, are little more than fanfiction. Don't know where people are getting a hit and run being tied with Husk's backstory or Cherri being killed in an explosion during a riot.
*Australian. My apologies. Though I wonder if she's supposed to be an Australian Latina now given her series VA is Latina, seeing how one of the reasons Viv gave to the pilot cast on why she replaced them was because of the characters' diversity.
