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A play written by Creator/CliveBarker, detailing the trial of [[{{Satan}} Lucifer]]. The audience attends as would-be jurors and are transported back in time via vignettes of testimony that illustrate the Devil’s actions throughout history. Notable appearances in the court and during flashbacks include [[Literature/TheDivineComedy Dante]], Jesus Christ and Lilith. The prosecution argues that the Devil’s presence on Earth has had a disastrous effect on mankind, whereas the defense counters that the Devil is – and always has been – man’s greatest scapegoat. The Devil demands that he be found innocent and be released to return to Heaven.

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!! This work provides examples of:
%%* AffablyEvil
%%* ArtificialHuman: Lucifer's "son"
%%* AwfulWeddedLife: Lucifer and Lilith
%%* AscendedDemon: Lucifer's goal
%%* BadBoss: [[spoiler: Lucifer]]
* BadassNormal: Daniel Mendoza. Even Lucifer is impressed.
* BatmanGambit: Pulled off by Catherine in her final statement.
%%* TheBadGuyWins: Well yes, but... see MeaninglessVillainVictory.
* TheCorrupter: Guess who.
%%* CryForTheDevil
* DeadPersonConversation: How each of the "witnesses" testify. They did live centuries apart.
* [[spoiler: DevilButNoGod]]
%%* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes
* EvenEvilHasStandards: Even the devil is not an OmnicidalManiac.
* FallenAngel: One of the flashbacks covers the fall.
* TheFarmerAndTheViper: Lucifer with pretty much anyone he befriends.
* FauxAffablyEvil: [[spoiler: Lucifer]]
%%* {{Flashback}}
* GoMadFromTheRevelation: The Heaven-bound messengers, upon discovering that [[spoiler: Heaven is empty.]]
%%* HaveYouSeenMyGod
* HeroAntagonist: Catherine, the prosecuter
%%* HighHeelFaceTurn: [[spoiler: Inverted with Jane]]
%%* HumansAreBastards
* JesusWasWayCool: Averted, in one of the least flattering depictions in literature.
* LiteralAssKissing: Lucifer asks several characters to do this for him, but politely.
* TheLostLenore: Lucifer's witch lover.
* MeaninglessVillainVictory: [[spoiler: Lucifer wins the trial and goes back to heaven, on the caveat that he can never return to Earth. It turns out that [[HaveYouSeenMyGod Heaven has been abandoned]].]]
%%* OffingTheOffspring
%%* OutGambitted: Lucifer, once by [[spoiler: Jesus]] and [[spoiler: again at the end by the prosecution]].
%%* OutWithABang: Pia Shim
* QuestionableConsent: Lucifer and Pia
%%* TheirFirstTime
%%* UndyingLoyalty: Lucifer's minion
* VillainyDiscretionShot: Well, you can't fit in everything the devil has done into a single play.
%%* VillainProtagonist
%%* WitchHunt: A literal one in a flashback.
* YouAreWorthHell: Or Heaven, as the case may be.
%%* YouHaveFailedMe
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