History NightmareFuel / Lucifer2016

'''Lucifer:''' (demented) Oh, Jimmy... ''you're going to wish that's'' '''''all''''' ''did to you.''

** Double with his beatdown on Jimmy after Chloe was wounded in a shootout.

* A very AdultFear one when Chloe is risking her life and Dan is begging her to think of Trixie. He's clearly imagining having to tell his daughter that Mommy is dead.

* Vincent Le Mec - the French mercenary who killed Dan - escapes from prison and eventually kidnaps Rory. Aside from the emotional torture [[AdultFear Lucifer and Chloe go through by learning their daughter is in danger]], they discover to their horror that Vincent ''mutilated her'', cutting off pieces of her metallic wings for his goons to use as weapons that can hurt the erstwhile invulnerable angel. He proves himself more dangerous than ''Michael'', and comes the closest to killing Lucifer by threatening his daughter.

** Even worse for him, by committing suicide, he does the one thing that's guaranteed to get you sent to hell. His thoughtless attempt to escape the devil's wrath only ended up making it much worse for him.

** Even worse for him, by committing suicide, he does the one thing that's guaranteed to get you sent to hell. His attempt to escape the devil's wrath only ended up making it worse for himself.

* The fact that Dromos basically killed about 30 innocent people walking into a church just to have demons possess their bodies. As a result, the episode has the single largest body count in the series, purely because of the climax alone.
** Worse, the show suggests the souls had to be destined for damnation to be possessed. Not only did the church have enough serious sinners to provide fodder for a legion of demons, but they also stole any chance of those people gaining redemption for their sins through confession.

* Just the fact that all of Lucifer's worst fears about Chloe's reaction to finding out the truth about him are legitimized, except that he is unaware of the worst of it because she is playing her part in Kinley's plan too well for him to know it.

* Remiel is intent on retrieving the celestial child Amenadiel has fathered and returning it to the Silver City at any cost. The condescending manner in which she talks about humans takes on a decidedly more chilling tone when she talks about literally cutting the child out of the mother to get to it.
* Lucifer decision to restrain his devilish side and leave the perp to the police to deal with backfires horrifically and leads to a police officer being shot and killed by the perpetrator during his escape. Dan is furious with him, and his own guilt drives him to violently attack the man at Eve's suggestion later on.

* The fact that Dan's attempt to force Lucifer to suffer the consequences of his violence by alerting Tiernan of who attacked his son nearly leads to Eve and Trixie being killed by his henchman.
* The revelation that Lucifer has lost his angel wings due to his moral decay, becoming bat-like and monstrous in appearance, suggesting the prophecy Kinley's recounts for Chloe is coming true.

* The scene where Lucifer goes to PowerIncontinence mode, as his mojo hypnotizes everyone in Lux (except for Chloe) to say their deepest desires, ''even though he wears a mask''.
* Lucifer's slow transformation to his [[BigRedDevil full Devil form]]. It starts with a red rash on his hand, which spreads until both hands are completely red and blistered, with his nails becoming clawed. Next, a reddened, bone-like ridge forms down his neck and spine, followed by his eyes glowing a burning red. By the end of the episode, his transformation is complete, with horrible, burnt skin and non-retractable, demonic wings. As powerful and dangerous as this form looks, it also looks as if Lucifer is [[TragicMonster mutilated and in terrible pain.]]

[[folder:Episode 10 - Partners to the End]]

* Vincent LeMec - the French mercenary who killed Dan - escapes from prison and eventually kidnaps Rory. Aside from the emotional torture [[AdultFear Lucifer and Chloe go through by learning their daughter is in danger]], they discover to their horror that Vincent ''mutilated her'', cutting off pieces of her metallic wings for his goons to use as weapons that can hurt the erstwhile invulnerable angel. He proves himself more dangerous than ''Michael'', and comes the closest to killing Lucifer by threatening his daughter.

* Remiel is intent to retrieve the celestial child Amenadiel has fathered and return it to the Silver City at any cost. The condescending manner in which she talks about humans takes on a decidedly more chilling tone when she talks about literally cutting the child out of the mother to get to it.
* Lucifer decision to restrain his devilish side and leave the perp to the police to deal with backfires horrifically and leads to a police officer being shot and killed by the perpetrator during his escape. Chloe and Dan are furious with him, and his own guilt drives him to violently attack the man at Eve's suggestion later on.

* The whole scene at the Mayan is terrifying because it prominently features the Biblical horror element that the show rarely delves into into. Previous villains of the show, such as Malcolm and Cain, have been personal enemies for the heroes (and Lucifer specifically). Even the Goddess, who came close to threatening humanity when she nearly released her divine energy, never intended to do so, since all she wanted was to get back at her ex-husband. This time, demons ''actively'' attack and kill humans, not out of any vendetta, but simply so they can have a King, and even after Lucifer agreed to retake his throne, there's no guarantee that they will not attack humans again if he renegades on the deal. This makes the episode feel akin to something from ''Series/{{Supernatural}}'', which shows the darker repercussion of having Biblical figures/elements clashing with humanity: constant unexplained world-threatening terror.

** By the end of their battle, Lucifer's furious enough [[ScreamDiscretionShot to carve up Michael's face with a demon killing knife]] while his brother shrieks in agony struggling to release himself.

* Pete's demeanor after Ella puts everything back in it's place. There's something rather...''unsettling'' about the nerdy NiceGuy we've seen since his introductory episode, which makes it worse when he realizes Ella knows who he is and immediately attacks and tries to choke her, losing that "nerdy" and kind personality for a more animistic-like approach, complete with TranquilFury at that.
** Even worse is Pete's reasoning for murdering those women: [[FreudianExcuse His mother yelled at him and she didn't love him, but rather her garden]]. There's also the fact that he's ''incredibly [[TheStoic apathetic]]'', admitting to '''''Ella''''' that he used her as if to see if he could feel, to no longer [[LackOfEmpathy stop feeling]].

* Michael shamelessly admits to orchestrating Dan's death & killing his own sister, kills Chloe (& upon her resurrection, tries to kill her again), & kills another human all in one episode. To make it worse, at least one of the other angels seems to be totally okay with watching his brother straight up murder a human to get Amenadiel's necklace, saying humans are animals. Imagine how bloody his reign would've been, considering he'd probably be able to get at least a few of the other angels, who are immensely more powerful than humans, on board with terrorizing the entire human race, & has shown that he's willing to kill any of his siblings that stand in his way...

* Malcolm describes Hell as a door and behind it is what you loved the most in life used against you. In his case, he had a "hunger" for life and thus found himself constantly starved (which is why he's eating all the time on Earth). It was only a few second for humans, but to him, it was a true eternity and thus why he'll do anything to avoid going back.

[[folder:Episode 12 - Take Me Back to Hell]]

* While a TearJerker moment with Chloe seeing the scars of Lucifer's back where his wings used to be and tries too touch the spots, Lucifer ''immediately'' grabs her wrist. '''''Hard.''''' It surprises him as much as her, especially with how kindly (and snarkily) he usually treats her.

** By the end of their battle, Lucifer's furious enough [[ScreamDiscretionShot to carve up Michael's face with a demon killing knife]] while his brother shrieks in agony.

* Lucifer's slow transformation to his [[BigRedDevil full Devil form]]. Starts with red gashes on his hands, which develop into scales, and neck. Then his eyes turn reddish. Near the end of the episode, he turns into a full-blown Devil, complete with horrible, decaying skin and non-retractable demonic wings. It looks powerful and dangerous, but at the same time like he looks [[TragicMonster mutilated and in terrible pain.]]

* To stop demons from harming his friends, Lucifer transforms into his Devil form again and announces, [[PowerMakesYourVoiceDeep in full baritone]], that all demons will bow to him and return to Hell. This also comes as a surprise since he went through so much trouble in the previous episode to shed this form by stop hating himself, but in this scene, his form returns in an instant when his loved ones are threatened (and particularly, the sight of Chloe screaming for him to help her). Really shows that you will ''not'' want to mess with the Devil.

[[folder:Season 1]]

[[AC: Pilot]]

[[AC: Lucifer, Stay. Good Devil]]

[[AC: Manly Whatnots]]

[[AC: Sweet Kicks]]

[[AC: Favorite Son]]

[[AC: A Priest Walks Into A Bar]]

[[AC: St. Lucifer]]

[[AC: Take Me Back to Hell]]
* Malcolm's wife is frantic as she explains to Chloe that Malcolm is out of control and is spending all of their money. Maze notes that his "appetite" is taking over. This is the reason why folks shouldn't escape Hell- their damnation becomes a true curse ([[EvilFeelsGood and they embrace it]])]].
* At the end of the episode, Amenadiel learns that someone has escaped hell and Lucifer is worried about it. When he asks Lucifer who the escapee is, Lucifer replies, "Mum". Their mother must be that bad if ''Lucifer'' is afraid of her.

[[folder:Season 2]]

[[AC: Liar Liar Slutty Dress on Fire]]

[[AC: Sin Eater]]

[[AC: Lady Parts]]

[[AC: Weaponizer]]

[[AC: Monster]]

[[AC: Trip to Stabby Town]]

[[AC: Homewrecker]]

[[AC: Quid Pro Ho]]

[[AC: Love Handles]]

[[AC: A Good Day to Die]]

[[AC: Sympathy for the Goddess]]

[[AC: The Good, the Bad and the Crispy]]
* Charlotte's threats towards and eventual ColdBloodedTorture of Linda, leaving the latter mortally wounded (thankfully, Amenadiel's time-slowing powers save her life). Charlotte's committed some horrible acts before, but this is the first time she's shown to have inflicted such a slow, brutal punishment on a human.

[[folder:Season 3]]

[[AC: Welcome Back, Charlotte Richards]]

[[AC: Off the Record]]

[[AC:Sinnerman]]

[[AC:The Sin Bin]]

[[AC: Orange is the New Maze]]
* Charlotte is actually relieved when she finds out that Lucifer is the Devil, because she considered the alternative (that she was going insane) worse. Now consider that she was walking around for weeks, perhaps even months thinking that she had, in fact, gone insane.

[[AC:Till Death Do Us Part]]

[[AC: Infernal Guinea Pig]]

[[AC:A Devil of My Word]]

[[AC:Once upon a time]]
* Maze leads a cult which initiates members by burning half their face away to make them resemble Maze's demon face.

[[folder:Season 4]]

[[AC: Everything's Okay]]

[[AC: Somebody's Been Reading Dante's Inferno]]

[[AC: Oh, Ye of Little Faith, Father]]

[[AC: Orgy Pants to Work]]

[[AC: Devil Is as Devil Does]]

[[AC: Save Lucifer]]
* Lucifer's [[BigRedDevil full Devil form]] looks surprisingly creepy. It looks powerful and dangerous, but at the same time like it's [[TragicMonster mutilated and in terrible pain.]]

[[AC: Who's da New King of Hell?]]
* The fact that Dromos basically killed about 30 innocent people walking into a church just to have demons possess their bodies.

** Double with his beatdown on [[spoiler:Jimmy]] after Chloe was wounded in a shootout.

* [[spoiler:Jimmy]] in the mental hospital. The mere mention of Lucifer's name causes him to start bashing his head into a wall and the orderlies have to restrain him before he kills himself.

* Lucifer drops the pretty boy image for a split second when two people, [[spoiler:the victim of the week and her brother]], won't accept the ironic punishment they've already inflicted on their target and still try to kill him. Needless to say, they're quite scared when they realize who they've pissed off.
* While a TearJerker moment with Chloe seeing [[spoiler: the scars of Lucifer's back where his wings used to be]] and tries too [[spoiler: touch the spots, Lucifer ''immediately'' grabs her wrist. '''''Hard.''''' It surprises him as much as her, especially with how kindly (and snarky) he treats her]].

* After Father Frank [[spoiler:is shot, Lucifer utterly ''[[UnstoppableRage loses]]'' it and lifts the shooter clear off the ground, slamming him into the wall and screaming in his face, clearly intending to kill him]]. It takes a concerted effort from Chloe to talk him down.

* Malcolm describes [[spoiler:Hell as a door and behind it is what you loved the most in life used against you. In his case, he had a "hunger" for life and thus found himself constantly starved (which is why he's eating all the time on Earth). It was only a few second for humans, but to him, it was a true eternity and thus why he'll do anything to avoid going back]].

* Malcolm's wife is frantic as she explains to Chloe that Malcolm [[spoiler:is out of control and is spending all of their money. Maze notes that his "appetite" is taking over. This is the reason why folks shouldn't escape Hell- their damnation becomes a true curse ([[EvilFeelsGood and they embrace it]])]].
* At the end of the episode, Amenadiel learns that someone has escaped hell and Lucifer is worried about it. When he asks Lucifer who the escapee is, Lucifer replies, [[spoiler: "Mum". Their mother must be that bad if ''Lucifer'' is afraid of her]].

* This episode makes it clear that God is ''not'' screwing around. [[spoiler:When Lucifer attempts to invoke LoopholeAbuse, Chloe, whom he made his deal with God to protect, is later seen getting into a nasty car crash.]]
** [[spoiler:It then turns out that ''Uriel'' did it, and he has no qualms about taking Chloe out to get what he wants.]]

* The butterfly/snowball effect-like [[spoiler: nature of Uriel's patterns/power. Moving a skateboard merely an inch to the right caused Chloe's traffic accident. And knocking the papers out of a man's hands nearly killed three people, Chloe included.]]
* In a setting where DeathIsASlapOnTheWrist if you have your connections, Azrael's blade causes CessationOfExistence

* We finally get to see Lucifer's real face. Not in a mirror or in a distorted first-person image. Plain, out in the open. Okay, it's not ''too'' terrible. But it still looks bloody and like someone who's just been scalped. Muscle, bone, gross patterns. [[spoiler: Dr. Linda Martin freaks out.]]

* [[spoiler:Dan]], [[MoreThanMindControl fueled by the powers of Azrael's Blade]], comes ''very'' close to killing Lucifer.

* Lucifer's mother plans to get Lucifer to try and return to Heaven with her and Amenadiel. To this end, she first tries to have Lux blown up, fully intending to have all the current occupants blown up along with it. Later, she decides on a new target: [[spoiler:Chloe, after realising her son is in love with her.]] The episode ends with [[spoiler:her just about to push a detonator switch, which will set off a bomb attached to Chloe's car.]]

* Charlotte becomes quite terrifying in this episode, where she truly doesn't see any problem with blowing up [[spoiler: Chloe]], and is only dissuaded from it by Amenadiel convincing her that Lucifer will hate her if she does. The way she gleefully exclaims it's "so exciting" while waiting to press the detonator is particularly scary because she's ''not'' talking about the act of killing, she's simply talking about the fireworks when the car blows up. She is so completely separate from humans that she doesn't even care enough to take some sort of sadistic pleasure in killing them.

* While it's mostly an awesome moment, Lucifer's reaction when he finds out Charlotte nearly [[spoiler: blew up Chloe]] is terrifying because we know he never lies. He is interrupted before he finishes his threat, but he got as far as "I swear, if you hurt her, I will rip..". Since Lucifer does not make idle threats, one can assume he will do something truly terrible if any harm comes to [[spoiler: Chloe]].

** In the third incident, Dr. Carlisle ups the stakes by kidnapping both of his planned victims, hooking one up to a poisoned drip, and the other, a track star, to a guillotine that will [[AnArmAndALeg slice his leg off]] if he pulls the rope. Then, when Chloe and Lucifer discover where the doctor's lab is, he offers ''her'' a choice - let the two young men die, or come in and save them... while exposing herself to a fatal amount of poison gas. [[spoiler: Thankfully, Lucifer manages to save them by convincing Chloe to chase after the doctor, allowing her to get far enough away that he can enter the lab without the poison harming him.]]
* The closing seconds of the episode. [[spoiler:Lucifer discovers that Chloe herself has been poisoned, as her [[DeadlyNosebleed nose is bleeding profusely]]. And Dr. Carlisle, the only person with the knowledge necessary to create an antidote fast enough to save her, is already dead.]]

* Dr. Carlisle's life fell apart when he was in a car accident and chose to save a briefcase containing an important project rather than the driver who died in an explosion. He was immediately villfied, fired, blackballed from the scientific community and his wife divorced him, and he firmly stuck to a NeverMyFault point of view, which led to him becoming a serial killer. So his punishment in Hell? To relive that very accident over and over for all eternity, always making the very same choice (and always sticking to the [[IgnoredEpiphany viewpoint he had in life]]). And as soon as he gets out of the way of the explosion, he's confronted by an angry mob calling him a coward. [[spoiler:Lucifer gets the frantic doctor to give up the cure for the formula "to make amends." The doctor asks if "that's enough" and Lucifer replies "You tell me." He then walks away as the mob moves in and the cycle begins again. Carlisle screams out in terror as Lucifer shows his demonic face and a wicked grin before leaving him to his eternal fate.]]
* Lucifer gets a dose of Hell's horrible medicine when he finds himself [[spoiler:locked into a loop where he stabs Uriel over and over again. Even with an intimate knowledge of how Hell works, Lucifer still isn't strong enough to break free on his own.]]

* Charlotte's threats towards and eventual ColdBloodedTorture [[spoiler: of Linda]], leaving the latter mortally wounded [[spoiler:(thankfully, Amenadiel's time-slowing powers save her life)]]. Charlotte's committed some horrible acts before, but this is the first time she's shown to have inflicted such a slow, brutal punishment on a human.

* Reese Getty proves incredibly creepy, especially with his SanitySlippage midway through and his obsession with bringing down Lucifer because [[spoiler: he slept with his ex-wife, Linda]]. And it turns out [[spoiler: he's dead and currently in hell, reliving the events of the episode in a constant loop.]]
** What's creepy about Reese is that if you take out Lucifer and the supernatural events surrounding him, he becomes someone you could meet in Real Life. He's a deconstruction of a DoggedNiceGuy, acting as a EntitledToHaveYou StalkerWithACrush to his ex-wife. There's nothing supernatural about that.
** As Lucifer admits, Hell's a swinging door and you're free to leave when you believe you no longer deserve to be down there. [[spoiler: Reese can't seem to ever forgive himself for destroying his marriage, and a human soul cannot seem to ever realize they're in Hell, barring Malcolm, so he can't ever break the loop and has no idea of the torment he's trapped in.]] Imagine knowing that all you have to do is forgive yourself to get out of Hell and you really can never grasp that you can.

* The reveal that [[spoiler: Marcus Pierce is [[CainAndAbel Cain]], the world's first murderer, an immortal, and the one behind the Sinnerman]].

** Cain goes to Hell. Cain repeats his life and death on earth, For All Eternity. [[spoiler:This is, indeed, what eventually happens to him.]]

* Just the fact that all of Lucifer's worst fears about [[spoiler: Chloe's reaction to finding out the truth about him are legitimized, except that he is unaware of the worst of it because she is playing her part in Kinley's plan too well for him to know it.]]

* The way in which Father Kinley manipulates [[spoiler: Chloe]] is quite unsettling. She's clearly in a fragile emotional state and terrified that everything she's known is a lie, and his entire plan hinges upon preying upon those fears.

* Remiel is intent to retrieve the [[spoiler: celestial child Amenadiel has fathered]] and return it to the Silver City at any cost. The condescending manner in which she talks about humans takes on a decidedly more chilling tone when she [[spoiler: talks about literally cutting the child out of the mother to get to it.]]
* Lucifer decision to restrain his devilish side and leave the perp to the police to deal with backfires horrifically and leads to [[spoiler: a police officer being shot and killed by the perpetrator during his escape. Chloe and Dan are furious with him, and his own guilt drives him to violently attack the man at Eve's suggestion later on.]]

* The fact that [[spoiler: Dan's attempt to force Lucifer to suffer the consequences of his violence by alerting Tiernan of who attacked his son nearly leads to Eve and Trixie being killed by his henchman.]]
* [[spoiler: The revelation that Lucifer has lost his angel wings due to his moral decay, becoming batlike and monstrous in appearance, suggesting the prophecy Kinley's recounts for Chloe is coming true.]]

* The fact that [[spoiler: Dromos basically killed about 30 innocent people walking into a church just to have demons possess their bodies.]]
** [[spoiler: Worse, the show suggests the souls had to be destined for damnation to be possessed. Not only did the church have enough serious sinners to provide fodder for a legion of demons, but they also stole any chance of those people gaining redemption for their sins through confession.]]
* One of the demons asking [[spoiler: if they can cut baby Charlie's tongue out because he won't stop crying.]] Up until that point, much of the demons' antics were PlayedForLaughs or BlackComedy. That moment pivots them around into a far more serious threat than first suspected.