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2->''"Perhaps this is the ultimate freedom, eh, [[ComicBook/TheSandman1989 Dream Lord]]? The freedom to leave..."''
3-->-- '''Lucifer'''
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5Perhaps the most notable spin-off from ''ComicBook/TheSandman1989'' to not only manage long-term success but also become a critically acclaimed comic in its own right, ''Lucifer'' followed the life and times of the eponymous fallen angel after he gave up being the Lord of Hell to run a piano bar in Los Angeles. After accepting a commission from God to deal with something that threatens humanity, he finds himself the owner of his very own universe. There follows an epic adventure in which Lucifer fights to escape the control of his father, God, while dozens of other parties unveil their own macabre plans.
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7Lucifer himself is an arrogant sociopath with a dry wit, who -- with a very few exceptions -- cares only for himself and his mission and will kill or ''severely'' inconvenience anyone who is stupid enough to get in his way. Despite popular conceptions of the devil, [[ManOfWealthAndTaste or perhaps playing them quite straight]], he is a handsome, suave figure who makes a point of never lying ([[ExactWords not that it means much]]) and always pays back what he owes. He has never tempted anyone into committing sins and indeed seems to find it slightly depressing when they live down to his expectations.
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9Along the way the comic picks up a recurring cast of about 12 other characters, including Jill Presto, a stage magician who makes a dangerous pact; Gaudium, a cigar-chomping former cherub; Elaine Belloc, an English schoolgirl with unusual powers, and Christopher Rudd, a damned soul who becomes the plaything of a cruel demoness.
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11Lucifer first appeared in ''The Sandman'' #4 (April, 1989). He also had guest appearances in ''ComicBook/TheBooksOfMagic'' and in titles featuring ComicBook/TheSpectre and ComicBook/{{Etrigan}}. He received his own mini-series ''The Sandman Presents: Lucifer'' (March-May, 1999) and then graduated to an ongoing series, which lasted for 75 issues (June, 2000-August, 2006). Both the mini and the ongoing were written by Creator/MikeCarey. A variety of illustrators worked on the titles, but the most important were Peter Gross and Ryan Kelly.
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13A sequel to the comic book series (written by Creator/HollyBlack) was released on December 2015, starring the eponymous character and his brother, Gabriel.
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15[[Series/Lucifer2016 Lucifer got a series on FOX in 2016]], with Creator/TomEllis playing the character. Like the comics, it focuses on him as he decides to leave the literal Hell for Los Angeles, aka Hell on Earth. There, he runs a very popular nightclub while also doing [[DealWithTheDevil "favors"]] for various people. When a singer with a promising career he helped start is gunned down in front of him, he finds himself with an urge for punishing sinners once again, and he strikes up an unusual partnership with a local homicide detective.
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17Another version of the character, this one portrayed by Creator/GwendolineChristie, appears on ''Series/TheSandman2022'' from Creator/{{Netflix}}, which adapts the original comics.
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20!!''Lucifer'' provides examples of:
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22* AbhorrentAdmirer: Scoria to Mazikeen, and Spera to just about anything vaguely male. Also, Jill's stalker.
23* AbominationAccusationAttack: In the first issue, a young woman gets angry with the protagonist when he doesn't stop her from touching some wet paint, explaining only afterwards that it's actually blood. In retaliation, she threatens to call the cops and claim that he's a pedophile who has kidnapped her.
24* AbsurdlyLongStairway: The angel Meleos keeps a copy of every written work humankind has ever produced. The archives are in an "underground tower more than a mile high," concealed beneath the Hamburg bookshop he manages. At the very bottom he keeps his own creation, a living [[TarotMotifs tarot deck]], which has become corrupt and extremely dangerous, such that when he tries to destroy the cards, they overpower him and escape. Too weak after the battle to manifest his wings, he must climb the staircase by foot.
25* AbusiveParents: Lilith takes this to the extreme. A case can also be made for [[spoiler:Yahweh.]]
26* ActionGirl: Mazikeen is a formidable demonic fighter in the form of a woman.
27* AffablyEvil: Lord Arux is a demon and owns the largest production plant of Pain in Hell, extracting the pain of the damned for the demons' pleasure. He is also generally tolerant, polite and a voice of reason, and is on general good terms with Lucifer.
28* AkashicRecords: The artificer Scoria's [[spoiler:pool where the thoughts of God flow and can be seen]] probably counts. Also the Aleph.
29* AllMythsAreTrue: The series features countless gods and mythical figures, and never suggests that any myth is untrue -- though there are hints that this is "for a certain value of true".
30* AlwaysChaoticEvil: Quite a few characters, notably Fenris and his [[TheTrickster Trickster]] companions Abonsam and Bet Jogie, are cruel, destructive and dishonest simply because it's what they ''are.'' Who expects embodiments of cruelty, destruction and dishonesty to be otherwise?
31* AmbiguousGender: Innocence (the Child) of the Basanos, and its [[TheDragon dragon]] Death of the Basanos, are explicitly referred to in the text as female and male, respectively. The Basanos as a whole however are referred to with male descriptors, such as ''brother'' or ''father''.
32* AmbiguouslyBrown: "The woman and the man," the first two lifeforms Lucifer creates in his universe. {{Justified|Trope}} in that they're only loosely "human" and are not meant to correspond to any Earthly race or nationality.
33* AnotherDimension: The characters run into several along the way (sometimes literally).
34* ApocalypseHow: They come in groups, escalating from Class Z to Z-2 to Z-3, ultimately threatening the existence of all creation''s''.
35* ArcWords: Some variety of "Normal service has resumed" or "Normal service will resume" appears once per arc.
36* AristocratsAreEvil: Inverted: the demons of Hell aren't evil because they are aristocrats, they are ''pretending'' to be aristocrats because they are evil, and it's fashionable.
37* ArtificialLimbs: [[spoiler:Jill Presto's metal hand.]]
38* AscendToAHigherPlaneOfExistence: [[spoiler:Elaine Belloc, deciding to run the universe from the inside out, rather than from the top down like the last god did.]]
39* TheAtoner: Rudd's character arc has him starting out as this, and then going very strange places. [[spoiler:Meleos]] gets this one twice over, the second time to make up for how he resolved the first. And then there's [[spoiler: Karl]].
40* BadassBookworm: Meleos is ''obsessed'' with books, and is as formidable as an angel can be expected to be.
41* BarbieDollAnatomy: All of the angels. They seem to also have a variable nudity taboo, not that it really matters anyway, since they're all (in effect) wearing flesh-colored superhero leotards. The implied reason for their lack of genitalia is the fact that, per the archangel Gabriel, the Angelic Host does not create, which presumably includes procreation. Half-angel Cal is also mentioned as being without genitalia. Perdissa has breasts, but like her male fellows, she has no nipples. Angel anatomy is essentially decorative. In the finale, Spera asks Mazikeen how she had sex with Lucifer despite his lack of genitals. Mazikeen [[TheUnReveal leans in and whispers the answer.]] Spera is shocked speechless.
42* TheBaroness: Mazikeen verges on this, as does her mother. Lys also has shades of this.
43* BecomingTheMask: [[spoiler:Cestis, after she is resurrected by the Basanos and eats Elaine's adoptive father.]] She's ''not happy''.
44* BewareTheSillyOnes: The Titan Brothers talk and sometimes act like complete idiots. They are also cosmic entities who [[spoiler:come very close to usurping the throne of God]].
45* BigScrewedUpFamily: The Lilim. More metaphorically, the angels, fallen ''and'' otherwise. Also a number of smaller DysfunctionalFamily units, human and otherwise. In fact, not very many happy, functional ones exist within the comics.
46* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler:Everyone who survives to the finale pretty much gets a happy ending, except Lucifer, who can never have the one thing he truly wants, so he disappears into oblivion. Elaine Belloc doesn't end any happier, she has to cut ties with everyone including her best friend and fellow goddess, and gives everyone something they want (but not necessarily what they want the most), giving the entire cast a BittersweetEnding.]]
47* BlackMagic: Mazikeen utilizes this at least once.
48* BlessedWithSuck: Briadach. Also, [[spoiler:Jill]], by choice (sort of), and [[spoiler:Elaine]], not by choice.
49* BrainsAndBondage: Lady Lys, a shrewd demon with a demon's love of sin and pain.
50* BreakTheHaughty: Jill Presto, Lady Lys, Archon Michael -- if you're at all a haughty character in this story, you're going to have the opportunity to learn humility at some point. Even Lucifer takes a few knocks.
51* BrickJoke: During ''The Morningstar Option'', Lucifer pays Pharamond 240 copper aes in a bag and offers to let him count them to ensure that the devil isn't lying to him. Pharamond declines, stating he trusts Lucifer. Later, during ''The House Of Windowless Rooms, Pt. 1'', Pharamond and [[ComicBook/{{Hellblazer}} John Constantine]] are talking in Lucifer's bar and as Pharamond leaves, Constantine advises him;
52--> "Don't take any wooden aes."
53* BroughtDownToNormal: [[spoiler:Elaine]] uses her new godly powers to turn [[spoiler:Noema]] into a fully human child.
54* ByronicHero: Lucifer, unsurprisingly.
55* CallingTheOldManOut: Lucifer (and eventually also [[spoiler:Michael]]) challenging Yahweh is a main theme. There's a lot of it around generally though: Jill and [[spoiler:Mazikeen and Briadach]] to their mothers, Elaine to her [[spoiler:adoptive]] parents, the Basanos to Meleos, Jayesh to his shopkeeper dad... Gathering enough willpower and personal experience to acknowledge the flaws in one's parents/progenitors is a very prominent theme in the series. Interestingly, Yahweh seems to be actively ''trying'' to get this reaction out of His sons.
56* CameBackWrong: In his first appearance, Tsukiyomi is a polite, romantic poet and ExtremeDoormat who delights in showing Lucifer the wonders of his mother's palace. After his death and reappearance in the Mansions of the Silence, he takes the form of a spindly spider-thing with a markedly different [[WouldHurtAChild demeanour]].
57* TheCameo: John Constantine is among the gathered parties come to the Lux to discuss [[spoiler:the portal created by]] Lucifer. Gains extra points since Constantine was one of the DC Verse characters used in the early issues of ''ComicBook/TheSandman1989'' to connect it to DC's wider world and Creator/MikeCarey wrote a lot of Hellblazer.
58* ChangelingFantasy: [[spoiler:Elaine Belloc's true father is the archangel Michael.]]
59* CharacterDevelopment: A lot, but perhaps most notably Mazikeen, Elaine and Rudd. However, part of Lucifer's infamous pride is his refusal to develop in any way. He still ends up a somewhat different character than he was at the beginning, though.
60* TheChessmaster: As for ManipulativeBastard, plus Briadach. (Though he's something of a ManipulativeBastard too, in his way.)
61* ChekhovsGunman: The Jin en Mok Saul runs into another of his kind and demands to know whether it's Berim or Cestis (it's Cestis). They then try to end the world, but fail. Berim shows up much later, along with a better world-ending plan.
62* ChivalrousPervert: Bergelmir. And arguably Coyote. Apparently [[spoiler:Jill]] brings this out in people.
63* CombatTentacles: Susanoo-no-mikoto deploys these against the Lilim as one of his greater attacks.
64* ContinuityNod: Appearances by [[ComicBook/{{Hellblazer}} John Constantine]] and various characters from ''ComicBook/TheSandman1989''. Likewise, note the appearance of The Source from DC's older cosmic-level comics.
65* CouncilOfAngels: Who's running the Silver City in the apparent absence of God?
66* CreativeSterility: Most angels.
67* CreepyChild: Innocence (AKA the Child) of the Basanos.
68* CrossoverCosmology: The comic features appearances by Norse gods, Japanese gods, various mythological creatures and so on.
69* CurbstompBattle: A common mortal pimp threatens one of the children of Lilith herself, whose father was a powerful demon. It ends badly for him. Very quickly. In fact, most fights throughout the story turn out to be wildly unequal.
70* CursedWithAwesome:
71** Jill gets possessed by the Basanos, and while they give her powers and such if she obeys them, they give her ''a lot'' of crap if she doesn't.
72** Subverted with Erishad. Her gods cursed her with immortality, complete with immunity to aging and injury. Sounds awesome, right?
73--->'''Erishad:''' Every morning my body forgets all wounds, all hurts. And makes itself again exactly as it was when the gods first cursed me. I have had the same miscarriage every day for four thousand years.
74* DarkActionGirl: Mazikeen again, and also Zim'et.
75* DeadpanSnarker: Lucifer, Gaudium and Spera. Occasionally, though, even Elaine, Mazikeen, Remiel and Amenadiel get in on the act.
76* DebtDetester: Lucifer, to no-one's surprise, despises the idea of being dependent on anybody and makes a point of honour to pay everything back. [[spoiler:The ending implies he resents God for having created him in the first place, since it means he's dependent on someone else for existing.]]
77* DeityOfHumanOrigin: Mona Doyle eventually becomes a Goddess. [[spoiler:So does Elaine Belloc, but Elaine was never fully human.]]
78* DemonOfHumanOrigin: Christopher Rudd ascends from being one of the damned to [[spoiler:a member of hell's nobility, then a mystic sage preaching salvation in hell itself, to finally leading an army of the damned against Heaven.]]
79* DestructiveRomance: Lady Lys' spirit gets permanently broken by her mortal lover Cristopher Rudd. And you thought a romance between a demon and a human would be bad for the ''human''?
80* DidYouJustFlipOffCthulhu:
81** With the alignment flipped. Mazikeen, in the Silver City, surrounded by the assembled hosts of heaven. Passion is blasphemy, and she has a powerful need to blaspheme. So she [[TakeThatKiss kisses Beatrice, passionately, while giving the angels the finger]]. Also Lilith, who raked her fingernails across [[spoiler:Yahweh's]] face!
82** A more traditional version when Hosteen Sam Begai informs Lucifer that he's trespassing: "Atse'Hashke, this is my house, and you were not invited here."
83* DisproportionateRetribution:
84** Saul of the Jin en Mok was distracted by a janitor in a diner and lost his train of thought. So he gave the kid [[ArtifactOfDeath a hypnotic coin]] that causes the possessor to stare at it a little more each day causing them increasing levels of pleasure and pain until eventually they wither and die. Because that's just the kind of guy he is.
85** Lucifer himself is prone to these if someone crosses him. He destroys the life work of the angel Melos, thousands of years of effort, for disobeying him.
86* DistractedFromDeath: A sideplot in the third volume has an example. A pair of human friends (later lovers) run away from home and sneak into Lucifer's home in Los Angeles. Because it's not a natural place, they wind up wandering it for days without food or water. At one point, the guy wakes up and, without realizing that the girl is dead, tells her to rest while he searches for help. He doesn't live much longer himself, dying after Lucifer, angered that they trespassed without permission, refused to help him.
87* DivineInfernalFamily: The central drama is built on the Presence being as much Lucifer's father alongside Michael as He is his creator; Lucifer wants to escape his father's plan and shadow, which is exceptionally difficult given [[{{God}} who the Presence is]]. The Presence actually wants him to achieve this. ArchangelMichael serves as Lucifer's brother and TheDutifulSon.
88* DivinelyAppearingDemons: Well, ''devil''. Lucifer is depicted as a handsome man with golden wings, and is consistently shown as one of the most (if not ''the'' most) attractive of all the angels.
89* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: Invoked by Lucifer. "You are the man and the woman. This is the garden."
90* DramaPreservingHandicap: Lucifer is one of the most powerful beings in existence, probably exceeded only by God and rivaled only by Michael, but he's usually operating under some limitation that prevents him from simply destroying whatever's in his way. This may be justified given Lucifer's personality, ego, pride, and massive narcissism. Given who he is and his power, he seems to find WhenAllYouHaveIsAHammer solutions and getting his hands dirty beneath him. Put it this way, if you were more powerful than 99.99% of everything in the universe by a wide margin, everything would be and ant to you. Why not not have the ants do the ant work which is beneath you?
91* DreamSpying
92* EarthIsYoung: The first albums manage to avert this trope, in spite of being based in a creationist cosmology, and also in spite of the ''Lucifer'' comic being a spin-off from ''Sandman''. ''This'' version of the setting make it unambiguous that biblical events took place billions of years ago. Later albums kinda throw the concept of linear/objective time out of the window, returning us to the postmodernism of ''Sandman''.
93* EldritchAbomination:
94** The Jin en Mok and the Silk Man. They're stated to be leftover beings from a previous version of the universe who want to get out of this one and start their own using Lucifer's gate.
95** The angels, demons and Yahweh Himself seem more like this than their usual portrayals. They're just prettier.
96* EvilMatriarch: Izanami and Lilith. They pull this off in different ways, with Izanami clearly caring very much for her children, while Lilith obviously doesn't care for anyone except herself.
97* EvilVersusOblivion: Whether Lucifer can be called evil is deeply debatable but no-one, himself included, is likely to call him heroic. He is still one of the main forces standing against Fenris' attempt to destroy Creation.
98* EvilVirtues: Lucifer is a monster who will commit any atrocity to get what he wants, but he also has seemingly infinite willpower and determination, allowing him to tolerate any amount of pain in order to get inside an opponent's defenses, he is devoted to free will, and he never ever lies and always keeps his word.
99* ExpositionOfImmortality: Given the characters are variously gods, goddesses, angels, demons and other [[TimeAbyss time sinks]], this tends to happen fairly regularly. Lucifer goes down back to Hell during the ''The Morningstar Option'' and has an expositionary, though one-sided, chat with Duma about the times before the creation of man; Meleos remembers creating the Basanos and Lucifer coming to pose for the Lightbringer card and Sandalphon reminisces about the War In Heaven and how he came to collect the Archangel Michael.
100* ExpositoryHairstyleChange: Lucifer's hair changes from blond to red as his character darkens, although that ''might'' be a result of messed-up colouring and many different artists in the comics, seeing as his hair runs the gamut from white-blond to straw-blond to strawberry-red to true red to to orange to reddish-black. The hair curls that resemble horns don't remain consistent throughout the comic's run, either. The change seems to be actual and physical, however, since after he [[spoiler: gets his wings back from Izanami]] his hair goes strawberry-blond when he manifests them, but he goes back to the bleach-blond-with-dark-eyebrows look once he hides them again.
101* FalseFlagOperation: In ''A Dalliance With the Damned,'' a conspiracy switches letters from a baron of one of Hell's provinces to incite violence between the baron of Effrul and Lucifer. Later, the conspirators set fire to a riot within the baron's palace. {{Subverted}} in that Lucifer and the baron immediately recognize both events for what they are and plan for such betrayal.
102* FanServicePack:
103** [[spoiler:Elaine, after becoming a god in Lucifer's realm (and maybe "growing up" in centuries as a spirit),]] and [[spoiler:Mazikeen after the other half of her face is restored]]. And [[spoiler:Izanami]], in her later appearance.
104** Lys is an {{inver|tedTrope}}sion of the trope. She's introduced as a pure MsFanservice, hot and frequently naked. But after [[spoiler:Rudd poisons her with the ability to feel guilt]], she looks gaunt and dresses much more demurely.
105* FantasyCounterpartCulture: Justified; certain parts of Hell styled themselves after Renaissance Europe for fashion reasons.
106* FateWorseThanDeath: For trying to manipulate him (see FalseFlagOperation above), Lucifer grants a demon a soul... that he might be [[IronicHell tortured forever in his own pain mill]] after death.
107* FauxAffablyEvil: Berim and Cestis.
108* FemmeFatale: Lys. [[spoiler:Izanami has shades of this in her last appearance.]]
109* FetusTerrible: Erishad's baby, and also [[spoiler:Eikon]] and [[spoiler:Noema]]
110* AFormYouAreComfortableWith: [[spoiler:Yahweh]] tries several on when talking to [[spoiler:Elaine]], but she's not all that comfortable with any of them.
111* FullFrontalAssault: Lucifer has a tendency to this tactic. It's [[ArmorIsUseless usually]] but [[FanService not always]] given ''some'' kind of plot reason. (But see also BarbieDollAnatomy, above.)
112* GambitPileup: Happens a lot. It's not really surprising, given the density of {{Manipulative Bastard}}s in the story.
113* GeniusBruiser: Just because Lucifer is primarily a MagnificentBastard, doesn't mean he can't hold his own. In fact, his method of ''bruising'' involves using the same power that ignited all the stars in the universe.
114* GeniusLoci: The Barrowjane.
115* {{God}}: Yahweh shows up late in the plot. But He's omniscient, and must logically have been involved, in a way, from the start.
116* GodAndSatanAreBothJerks: In their own, morally grey way, ultimately neither God or Lucifer have much regard for anything but themselves.
117* GodIsFlawed: In this setting, all creators are very flawed. Lucifer himself neglects to construct a proper afterlife, Elaine tries and fails to keep her humans from killing each other in her name, and let's not even get started on Yahweh Himself.
118* GondorCallsForAid: In "Morningstar".
119* HeartTrauma: The duel between Lucifer and Amenadiel in Effrul.
120* HeelRealization: A lot. Sometimes it helps (a bit), sometimes it ''really'' doesn't, and sometimes, ([[spoiler:as in the case of Solomon,]]) it's more of an IgnoredEpiphany.
121* HellHasNewManagement: Christopher Rudd manages to go from damned soul to sex toy for the nobility of Hell into one of the nobility himself and eventually ruler of Hell. This is, of course, after Lucifer resigns rulership of hell and it gets turned over to two angels in ''ComicBook/TheSandman1989''. As Gaudium remarks later, the rulership of Hell seems to be "something that any schmendrick can add to his resume these days."
122* HellInvadesHeaven: At least once along the way. Depending how you define "Hell", perhaps.
123* HeteronormativeCrusader: One side character starts out as a ArmoredClosetGay Neo-Nazi who beat an Indian man almost to death for flirting with him, at the urging of some "friends". [[spoiler:The man gets disabled for life, but they end up as lovers anyway -- once the first guy realized that ThoseWackyNazis wasn't such a good crowd to hang out with after all.]]
124* HeterosexualLifePartners: Elaine and Mona.
125* HistoryRepeats: Lucifer burns out [[spoiler:Meleos' eyes in order to prevent him from remaking the Basanos]] in order to avert this trope.
126* HoldingBackThePhlebotinum: Lucifer, for all intents and purposes; his powers and abilities are beyond any SuperPowerLottery, but the series is not mainly about physical combat and certainly that's not Lucifer's preferred way to get what he wants. Also, it is made clear that in certain realms Lucifer has to abide by their law; so you won't get to see Lucifer going {{ComicBook/Darkseid}} and annihilating other [[PhysicalGod Physical Gods]] with his might. It's not so much that Lucifer has to obey the laws so much as breaking them could damage or even destroy the realm he is trying to fulfill his goals in which would, of course, defeat the purpose of going to said realms.
127%%* HolierThanThou: Amenadiel takes this up a notch, as do several other angels.
128* HoneyTrap: Musubi attempts this with Lucifer (and, naturally, fails). Cestis is also hinted to have pulled this in the past.
129* ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice ([[spoiler:Sandalphon.]])
130* InformedAbility: The reader will spend more time running off to ''ComicBook/TheSandman1989'' and reading footnotes in Lucifer's own series about his SuperPowerLottery and StoryBreakerPower stats than actually see them, or rather the vast majority, in action.
131* InspectorJavert: Solomon, [[spoiler:though he doesn't limit himself to just one target]].
132* IntellectualAnimal: Lord Arux's "pet", Prackspoor.
133* ItsAllAboutMe: Lucifer isn't very verbal about it, but it's fairly obvious that he never does anything for any other reasons than his own.
134* JackUpWithPhlebotinum: Demonic succubus Lady Lys gets a hold of Christopher Rudd, one of Hell's damned, as her personal plaything. Rudd, at first relieved he's being spared the suffering he's endured for centuries, comes to resent the situation, since he believes himself damned worse for consorting with demons than for paying penance. Lys, like many of Hell's denizens, is addicted to Pain(capital P), which is the distilled essence of the souls suffering in Hell. Rudd, however, distills ACTUAL Pain, pain as humans feel it, and gives it to Lys. When Lys imbibes it, she feels the actual pain of the souls she's tortured and played with, making her feel remorse and shame for her past actions. The experience turns her from a hedonistic slut into a broken, emotional wreck.
135* JourneyToFindOneself: In "All We Need of Hell".
136* KickTheDog: Numerous occurrences, often courtesy of Lucifer himself. On the other hand, [[AssholeVictim it's rather hard to feel badly for some of Lucifer's victims]], such as a crass truck driver (who Lucifer curses with impotence), Kagutsuchi (who is implied to have raped Musubi in the past and unjustly attacks Lucifer when the latter goes to get his wings back), and Amenadiel.
137* KnightTemplar: Several of the angels, such as Amenadiel, Perdissa (who crosses it with elements of {{Yandere}}), and [[LawfulStupid Gabriel]], in the backstory. And Remiel, of course. Ibriel also pulls this [[spoiler:on Lilith. It doesn't end particularly well for him.]]
138* LemonyNarrator: Briadach, Unagor and Gaudium.
139* LightIsNotGood: Beside his appearance, Lucifer also likes [[KillItWithFire fire as a weapon]], and literally, his name means "light wielder". His purpose was, originally, to kindle the stars at creation's beginning.
140* LittleMissAlmighty: [[spoiler:Elaine at the conclusion, having assumed God's mantle.]]
141* LookMaNoPlane: Gaudium uses this technique to get from London to New York.
142* MagicalAbortion: [[spoiler:Jill Presto]] is [[MakesJustAsMuchSenseInContext impregnated by the Basanos, the living personification of the Tarot]]. When she has the chance, she leaves the FetusTerrible to die in another dimension, but it turns out [[spoiler:she was carrying twins. The other one, Noema, gets BroughtDownToNormal and is born as a human child]].
143* {{Mangst}}: Christopher Rudd, so very much.
144* ManipulativeBastard: As for MagnificentBastard under YMMV, but also the Basanos, Sandalphon, Berim, the Silk Man, and a number of other characters, including Briadach.
145* MeleeATrois: Between factions led by Lucifer, Lilith and Rudd, in ''Morningstar''.
146* MisaimedFandom: In-universe example with Elaine's early attitude to Lucifer, according to her jealous fathers Michael and David.
147* MisterSeahorse: The archangel Michael is used as the (giant-sized) incubator for the "army of archangels" in the second book. It doesn't work out according to plan, however -- it's stated that [[spoiler:all the children born were mentally and/or physically impaired, and only Elaine Belloc was a successful attempt]].
148* MsFanservice: Jill, which can get kinda {{Squick}}y considering all the awful things she goes through.
149* MuggleFosterParents: [[spoiler:The Bellocs to Elaine.]]
150* MultiArmedAndDangerous:
151** One of the assassins sent to dispatch Lucifer in "Inferno".
152** Musubi of the Shiko-Me from ''The House of Windowless Rooms'' also qualifies.
153* MyRuleFuIsStrongerThanYours: Lucifer constantly contends with gods, demons, and angels of incredible power, and is frequently at an apparent disadvantage when doing so. But ''all'' of them (except God) have to operate within certain rules, and Lucifer ''always'' knows how to turn those rules to his advantage.
154* TheNeidermeyer [[InSpace IN HELL!]]: Remiel.
155* NiceGuy: Michael. This serves him about as well as you'd expect in context.
156* NighInvulnerability: Many, if not all, of the angels have this to some extent.
157* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: Lucifer is explicitly based on Music/DavidBowie.
158* OmnicidalManiac: Fenris. He does personify destruction -- but he's rather more proactive than one would hope.
159* TheOmniscient: Yahweh. Obviously. Everything that happens and ever will happen from the dawn of time through the first half of the series, including all of Lucifer's efforts to escape The Plan, were part of The Plan. Lucifer's rebellion and the War in Heaven, his rulership of Hell, abdication of Hell, and creating a new universe -- all God's Divine Plan. This becomes a plot point in the second half of the series when God deliberately withdraws His will from the universe and turns a blind eye, allowing the possibility of an outcome He ''won't'' always have known. It was the only way He could allow something He could not predict to occur. Even then, He still guessed much of it correctly in almost every detail.
160* OurAngelsAreDifferent: A lot.
161* OvershadowedByAwesome: Mahu is a powerful demon. He kicks a door open so hard that he kills the human who was standing behind it. When he thinks Lucifer is threatening him with a fall of several miles, he scoffs "Do you think a fall will kill me?" (Lucifer knows better; what he's ''actually'' threatening Mahu with is being thrown into orbit -- not that orbit would kill Mahu either, but atmospheric re-entry would when his orbit finally degraded enough.) He would probably be a serious threat to DC's standard superheroes. But in a cast that includes Mazikeen and Lucifer, he just looks pathetic.
162* PerpetualFrowner: In contrast to his earlier appearance in ''ComicBook/TheSandman1989'', Lucifer never smiles or laughs. In fact, one could go so far as to say he only expresses two emotions: perpetual annoyance and brief flashes of pure rage.
163* PluckyComicRelief: Gaudium and Spera.
164* PosthumousCharacter: Given that the afterlife in this series appears to have a revolving door, more than you'd think and livelier than you'd think.
165* PowerOfTheVoid
166* {{Psychopomp}}: Lucifer, self-announced as one during ''The House of Windowless Rooms'' arc.
167* RaceLift: A weird, meta version; Rachel Begai and her family appear to be entirely white in the first issue, despite being Native American (full-blooded in the case of Rachel's father and half in the case of Rachel and Paul). Later issues fix this.
168* RageAgainstTheHeavens: The title character's major motivation: to achieve something outside his Father's Divine Plan.
169* RapeAsDrama: [[spoiler:Jill suffers rape at the hands of the Basanos.]] Rachel Begai [[spoiler:and Mazikeen]] also suffer a NearRapeExperience.
170* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: Poor Uriel. He's just trying to hold the Host together while Lucifer, Michael and Yahweh play out their grand drama. It's after he dies that they really start to fall apart. Notable for being polite to Mazikeen (a demon, remember) when she offers aid.
171* TheResenter: The Lilim have this as their [[PlanetOfHats hat]], the exceptions being Briadoch and Mazikeen.
172* {{Retcon}}: Lucifer states in ''ComicBook/TheSandman1989'' that he lost none of his powers when he abdicated his leadership of Hell. In his own series, though, recovering his wings (and his full power) becomes an important plot point.
173* RightHandCat: Prackspoor to Lord Arux.
174* {{Satan}}: Subverts almost every traditional 'devil' concept.
175* ScrewDestiny: Lucifer tries to one-up Destiny of the Endless, first by trying to bet he'll be able to do something Destiny cannot predict (which Destiny doesn't rise to), and then by ripping pages from Destiny's book and burning them, claiming Destiny is now as much in the dark as he. [[spoiler:Except the ashes turn out to tell him exactly what will happen, allowing Destiny to [[LoopholeAbuse bend his own rules never to read aloud from his book]] ''and'' show Lucifer there's nothing he doesn't foresee. Judging by his words, Lucifer is forced to concede.]]
176* SelfInflictedHell: Every one of the damned in hell is this to some extent. [[spoiler:Lucifer arguably ends up with one of his own in the end.]]
177* SelfServingMemory: In the final issue Lucifer has a flashback to his discussion with Morpheus back in ''ComicBook/TheSandman1989''. While in the original storyline Lucifer is presented as extremely emotive and passionate, laughing and expressing visible anger at the folly of mortals, in the flashback he seems just as stoic as he has been for the rest of the comic.
178* SiblingRivalry: The Lilim, and also Lucifer/Michael (though seeing the designated two most powerful creatures in being squabble like kids has a certain charm) and the host in general. Also, for comic relief version, Gaudium, Spera and Lumen.
179* SiblingYinYang: Lucifer and Michael.
180* SilentBob: [[spoiler:Duma.]]
181* SlasherSmile: Mazikeen has a memorable one.
182* SlouchOfVillainy: Lucifer pulls this to provoke Michael, who is additionally annoyed at the transparency of the ploy.
183* SmugSnake: Sandalphon, so very much. Also [[spoiler:Amenadiel]], literally and for a short while.
184* TheSociopath: Quite a few characters, including the title character.
185* StalkerWithATestTube: [[spoiler:Izanami to Lucifer at the end of the series is a version of this -- and it works, but we don't see that until the sequel. She also decides to reinvent herself after.]]
186* StopWorshippingMe: [[spoiler:Lucifer in his version of Creation.]]
187* SunnydaleSyndrome:
188** Played with in terms of how far the more incidental humans (etc.) around the main cast seem to have any idea what's going on. After a while they just seem to sort of roll with it.
189** "Normal consciousness will be resumed."
190* SuperEmpowering
191* SuperPowerLottery:
192** To spare some space, just take the popular belief of the Christian {{God}}, and make it a bit less powerful, and in a fairly literal sense you have both Lucifer and Michael; however, the series is not about {{Physical God}}s going at each others' throats ComicBook/{{Superman}} vs. ComicBook/{{Darkseid}} style. The reader [[HoldingBackThePhlebotinum rarely sees more than]] Lucifer boasting, exercising his infinite will and a certain degree of omnipotence and omniscience during the series' run. There are ''some'' glimpses of Lucifer's might; they're memorable. However, he prefers to rely on careful preparation and manipulation, not least because obliterating foes with infinitely-kindled primordial fire lacks a certain style. Mind you, that "certain degree" of omniscience and omnipotence includes ''creating a new multiverse''. Also, he ''breaks'' an afterlife just by visiting it.
193** God's role in the story is defined by the fact that He is totally unassailable physically, instantly knows everything that's going on, and is several leagues above even Lucifer in raw intelligence.
194* TakeAThirdOption: Repeated plot point.
195* TakenForGranite: Izanami initially appears as a giant rock statue, though it seems her not speaking or moving much is by choice.
196* TarotMotifs: The Basanos, who also provide a TarotTroubles reading for Lucifer in the original mini-series.
197* TemptingFate: Quite a few characters, including the title character, get into this occasionally.
198* ThatThingIsNotMyChild: [[spoiler:Jill Presto]] is [[DoubleStandardRapeDivineOnMortal impregnated by the Basanos, the living personification of the Tarot]], and she is ''not'' happy about the resulting FetusTerrible. When she has the chance, she leaves it to die in another dimension, but it turns out [[spoiler:she was carrying twins. The other one, Noema, gets BroughtDownToNormal and is born as a human child]].
199* ToHellAndBack: Though, being the former Lord of Hell, this isn't anything unusual for Lucifer.
200* ToHellWithThisInfernalJob: In the backstory.
201* TooDumbToLive: Sherri and, to a (slightly) lesser extent, Ewan from Volume 2, both of whom are not only stupid enough to climb the large, mysterious building, but also ''break into'' it (with Sherri fully believing she's "invited" due to simply having a sixth sense). The building, of course, turns out to belong to Lucifer, and it works out for them about as well as one might expect.
202-->'''Lucifer''': You came into my house without knocking. And then you prayed to ''him''.
203* TookALevelInCheerfulness: Lucifer's personality lightens up after the time skip.
204* Totally18: Passionately averted with the female protagonist Elaine. At the beginning of the story she is twelve years old, and as she grow up her age is never mentioned again. She gradually and seamlessly transitions from childhood to becoming a TimeAbyss.
205* TwistedEucharist: The great wolf Fenris escaped his imprisonment and hatched a long-term plan to conserve his energies for the end of the world. He staged a reconciliation dinner for his enemies, the Aesir, and tricked them into eating pieces of his own flesh and drinking his blood, thereby storing his memories and powers in godly vessels. In present times, he allies himself with a group of other entropy gods to hunt down all of those who partook in his flesh and devour them. He even force-feeds a weakened Lucifer a bit of his own blood to drive him into a murderous frenzy, killing his own brother Michael, feeding Yggdrasil his fallen blood and essentially securing the destruction of the universe.
206* TheUnintelligible: Mazikeen. [[spoiler:She got better when Jill healed her and forced symmetry on Mazikeen's original partially-skinless face, but she is not happy about it by any means.]]
207* TheUnreveal: In "Eve", Spera asks Mazikeen how she and Lucifer had sex, given his BarbieDollAnatomy. [[spoiler:Mazikeen whispers in her ear, and Spera looks shocked, in a good way. That's it.]]
208* UnwittingPawn: Poor Charlie, Erishad, Jill, and poor Mr. Easterman. [[spoiler:Arguably repeatedly, too. Elaine and Michael may also count. And Lucifer himself, relative to God -- though anyone would be relative to ''God''. As the Almighty Himself points out, everything Lucifer knows he learned from his Father.]]
209* TheVamp: Lady Lys [[spoiler:initially]]; Bet Jogie, who has the description "The woman who is both beautiful and terrible." In fact, she personifies the concept.
210* VillainousBreakdown:
211** Quite a few, including one from Remiel that reminds you he's actually quite powerful, emotionally unbalanced {{Scrappy}} that he is.
212** [[spoiler:Lilith]] has one that's also a TearJerker ''and'' a HeelRealization. [[spoiler:''I was never cruel, before I loved...'']]
213* VillainousValor: Lucifer's infinite willpower means that he will tolerate any amount of pain in order to achieve his objectives, as when Fenris seemingly has him on the ropes until he unleashes his own power. He is also a master strategist, and completely honorable on his own terms.
214* VillainProtagonist: As a back cover blurb puts it, this is a story about the forces of good, evil and beyond evil.
215* VillainsNeverLie: Lucifer. Keeping promises and repaying debts is one of the few traditional virtues he's a stickler about maintaining.
216-->"...When the devil wants to get something out of you, he doesn't lie at all. He tells you the exact, literal truth. And he lets you find your own way to hell."
217* VillainTeamUp: In "Morningstar".
218* WeakButSkilled: A demon mocks Christopher Rudd for thinking he can win in a sword fight because the demon is much faster and stronger. Rudd shows him why.
219-->Ten hours a day, devil. For twenty-eight years. So I could teach the strong and the quick what ''else'' they needed before they could call themselves swordsmen.
220* WickedCultured: Lucifer, obviously, but also Lys, Sandalphon, Berim...
221* WindmillCrusader: We have the political faction "Efferul for Lucifer" that fights on the Morningstar's behalf. He is ''not'' amused, as their agenda is based on a very misguided vision of what he wants and needs.
222* WiseBeyondTheirYears: Elaine Belloc.
223* {{Wishplosion}}: The velleity in "The Morningstar Option".
224* TheWorfEffect: If Mazikeen is getting the crap kicked out of her, it's time to panic. Unfortunately, Mazikeen is ''always'' getting the crap kicked out of her.
225* TheWorldTree: Yggdrasil, in "The Wolf Beneath the Tree".
226* WorthyOpponent: Judging by how he treats him compared to practically everyone else, Lucifer appears to hold a great deal of respect for Duma. Or maybe it's simply because there's no sport in trying to verbally provoke someone who never talks back.
227* WouldBeRudeToSayGenocide: In ''Mansions of the Silence'', Lucifer annihilates billions of souls as a side effect of saving the life of one single person. (That one person was someone he owed a favor, his billions of victims were not.) Of all the people who witness this tragedy, only Bergelmir says anything about this action being immoral, and even he is quite polite about it. Even so, everyone else simply ignores him as they would a person who's being generally rude, impolite and socially inappropriate. That said, earlier in the series it is mentioned that it's impossible to destroy a soul; one can only unravel it so that it will take a millennia to reform. Considering that the Mansions of the Silence are in some ways worse than Hell, Lucifer's actions don't come off quite as bad. (Also, who in their right mind would start lecturing Lucifer, under the circumstances?)
228* YearInsideHourOutside: Lucifer's universe runs much faster than God's, something that plays into the plot several times. The difference in the passage of time seems to change from story to story, however.
229* YouAreWhoYouEat: The Jin En Mok demons Cestis and Saul. This is usually just a disguise, but to her horror, it ends up being a [[TheMindIsAPlayThingOfTheBody literal example]] for Cestis.
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232!! ''Lucifer (2015)'' contains examples of:
233* AbusiveParents: Medjine's adoptive family treats her like utter crap. [[spoiler:A case can also be made for Izanami, who pretty much had Takehiko raised for the sole purpose of killing Lucifer.]]
234* AllergicToEvil: [[spoiler:God, which is how Lucifer kills him.]]
235* AntagonisticOffspring: Takehiko, the son of Izanami [[spoiler: and Lucifer Morningstar, whom he intends to kill.]]
236* AntiVillain: Takehiko, who comes across more as a kid in over his head than an actual threat.
237* BenevolentBoss: Lucifer treats his employees at Ex Lux well. Given that it's ''Lucifer'', though, he's definitely not above breaking out the snark.
238* BigScrewedUpFamily: Takehiko gets this on ''both'' sides, being the son of [[EvilMatriarch Izanami]] [[spoiler:and Lucifer.]]
239* BreakingTheFourthWall: [[spoiler:Elaine, who was the NarratorAllAlong.]]
240* BrokenBird: Gabriel's time in Hell and the human world has not been kind to him.
241* BodyHorror: Gabriel is obviously missing his heart, and Lucifer has a constantly bleeding wound on his side.
242* CameBackWrong:
243** [[spoiler:God, who comes back as an OmnicidalManiac.]]
244** [[spoiler:Michael Demiurgos, who comes back as a blindly obedient archangel, in contrast to his more rebellious self in the original series.]]
245* ClosetKey: Raphael decides to seek comfort from [[spoiler: runaway Lorin Hammon.]]
246* CruelMercy: [[spoiler:Rather than kill Takehiko and Izanami, Mazikeen sentences them to be sealed inside the House of Windowless Rooms for eternity.]]
247* DespairEventHorizon: Gabriel has crossed it after being exiled from heaven thanks to Constantine. [[spoiler: It saves him from being mind-controlled by God.]]
248* TheDogBitesBack: Played with. It's Izanami's reason for getting revenge against Lucifer... but it was a fight ''she'' started to begin with. [[spoiler:It's also deconstructed; Izanami's partially-justified revenge against Lucifer goes ''way'' overboard, to the point where it unnecessarily ruins countless lives, including her own.]]
249* EvenEvilHasStandards: Lucifer's a fan of all kinds of sins, except for those that interfere with free will.
250* FreakOut: [[spoiler:Raphael, upon hearing a secret from Metatron, has one of these and kills him.]]
251* GodIsDead: The question is by who and how? [[spoiler: ''He'' did, with the involuntary help of Gabriel.]]
252* TheHighQueen: Mazikeen became this in Hell. She's still very much capable of being an ActionGirl, however.
253* KickTheDog: Deconstructed. Lucifer's [[LateArrivalSpoiler unnecessary murder-by-proxy]] of Tsukiyomi (and [[PayEvilUntoEvil the not-so-unnecessary killing]] of Kagutsuchi) in the previous series leads ''directly'' to Izanami causing some serious trouble for him.
254* LateArrivalSpoiler: The new series naturally comes with the assumption that readers are familiar with the original. As a result, major spoilers from the first series are treated as common knowledge.
255* NiceJobBreakingItHero: Elaine shirking her duties paves the way [[spoiler:for God to resume his former position and [[CameBackWrong come back wrong]].]]
256* OhCrap: [[spoiler: "Free will. That bastard is taking away our free will."]] Also counts as OOCIsSeriousBusiness, as it's [[spoiler:the normally unshakeable Lucifer who says this.]]
257* PsychicAssistedSuicide: [[spoiler:How God forced Gabriel to kill him.]] Gabriel doesn't take it well.
258* RapeIsASpecialKindOfEvil: Lucifer is staunchly unimpressed with a would-be rapist who slipped a roofie into a woman's drink at his club. He ends up tossing the guy into a star that was named after him as a Christmas present to one of his workers.
259* RedOniBlueOni: Gabriel is the red, Lucifer is [[TheChessmaster (naturally)]] the blue.
260* RevengeBeforeReason: Izanami. Not only does she [[spoiler:raise her son to take revenge on his own father, but when God is planning ''omnicide'', she keeps the former as her primary aim, rather than setting her goals aside for the moment. Not to mention that she doesn't even ''try'' to rescue Takehiko or find out if he's alive.]]
261* ShootTheMessenger: Mazikeen, to one of Takehiko's (who proposes ''marriage'' on his behalf).
262* SilkHidingSteel: Izanami, and she has the NervesOfSteel to back it up.
263* TokenMinority: Of all the angels, there are maybe two black angels, [[spoiler:and a single gay one.]]
264* TranquilFury: Lucifer shows this whenever he gets angry, most notably when Mazikeen gets injured, and when [[spoiler:he gets an eviction notice for his club.]]
265* {{Transplant}}: From minor Hellblazer villain, Gabriel now co-stars with Lucifer in the sequel.
266* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: [[spoiler:Medjine's abusive foster family never comes up again. Michael is a more egregious example, though he's presumably cured when his father bites the dust again.]]
267* WhatTheHellHero: Lucifer gets called out on his selfish abandonment of creation, namely by [[spoiler:Mazikeen and Elaine.]]
268* YoureNotMyFather: [[spoiler:Lucifer says this of what's apparently left of God.]]

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