History WMG / Reaper

The young Lucifer was an awkward, shy angel who just happened to be God's first creation. God, however, was an inscrutable, all-powerful force, who played with humanity for his own unexplained reasons. After spending too long listening to God justify himself with '''I AM AS I AM''', he decides that rebelling and freeing humanity from this arbitrary despot is the moral route. However, the lesser angels that make up his revolutionary forces were never meant to act independently of God, and become twisted by this lack, and began to engage in sadistic acts against the freed human souls to fill the void left by the presence of their creator. Lucifer, disillusioned with angelkind, and seeing no future in his rebellion, decided to defer to the status quo and made peace with his creator, parelying for command over his own realm, along with souls to command and thus save from God. However, God allowed him only those souls which did not obey his arbitrary commandments (like coveting), as well as the truly evil souls. Lucifer, trapped into an agreement which violated his ideals and exposed him only to the worst humankind could offer, (and unable to eat ''ice cream'', that God-bastard) became disillusioned with humanity and the universe in general, decided that if he had to be evil, he might as well do a good job, and became the suave ManOfWealthAndTaste he is today. His sons are his way of attempting to buck the status quo; the only problem is they keep tending to try and become UltimateEvil like they ''think'' he wants, and thus ultimately disappoint him. Sam is the only one so far who is weedy enough to buck the trend.

* That Sam/Claire's rarely-seen brother has a different face on the two shows is because he's the ghost of a person with abilities. In life, he had illusion powers, and was the younger brother of a more powerful/important/popular elder brother. Eventually he did an unspeakable crime... but since this wiki is read rather than spoken, it can be written here! (He [[Main/ToThePain tortured]] his elder sibling with a continuous playback loop of ''[[Main/CoolAndUnusualPunishment Gigli and Glitter]]'' [[Main/FateWorseThanDeath back to back]]) He didn't develop a split personality in Hell though, but got a power that allows him to do some Main/ClarkKenting, biding his time to strike again!

[[WMG: Wrestling/{{WWE}}'s {{The Undertaker}} is a Reaper.]]

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[[WMG:Cady has the same power as Ned from PushingDaisies.]]

[[WMG: ''Reaper'' is set in the same universe as ''{{Futurama}}''.]]
In ''Futurama'', Jesus' Second Coming is placed at 2443. In ''Reaper'', the Devil claims the world peace approach to defeating him would feasably work out in "about 400 years." Depending on Reaper's take on the theology of Jesus' Second Coming, world peace achieved in the year 2443 could end up destroying the Devil and usher in Jesus. This would also explain why there is a Robot Devil in the 31st century, but as far as we see, no "real" devil.