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Main Cast (Lucifer Morningstar) | Heaven and Hell | Other Humans

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Samael / Lucifer Morningstar

"I refuse to be a scapegoat for something for which I bear no responsibility. It’s a theme in my life."

Species: Archangel

Played By: Tom Ellis

First appearance: "Pilot" (1x01)

Appearances: Lucifer | Crisis on Infinite Earths: Hour Three

The First and Fallen One, the Prince of Lies, the Lord of the Underworld... and owner of a nice nightclub in LA. He left Hell for a vacation on Earth, which is causing some trouble down below. Lucifer is a self-obsessed egotistical prick, but he is protective of people he decides he likes.

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A-B

• Above the Influence: In "Pops", to his shock he resists kissing a drunk and heartbroken Chloe.
• Adaptation Dye-Job: Lucifer was blond/red-headed in the comics. Here, he has brown hair. Lampshaded in an episode where he infiltrates a satanic cult.
  Cultist: You're the real Lucifer? Aren't you supposed to be blond?
  Lucifer: Yeah, I get that a lot.
• Adaptation Personality Change: While his comic counterpart was a laconic, sardonic and detached sociopath, this series' Lucifer is a cheerful if egotistical Lovable Sex Maniac with a passion for all human sensations and a strong, if slightly twisted, sense of right and wrong.
• Adaptational Heroism: Lucifer's sociopathic traits from the comic are all but gone; instead of destroying anyone standing in his way and letting innocent people walk blindly to their own demise, he's actively pursuing justice in his own terms and prefers to use his powers for intimidation rather than violence. That being said, this is downplayed in Lucifer's case since he's more of an Anti-Hero in this show as opposed to the Anti-Villain from the comic books.
• Adaptational Relationship Overhaul:
  • In the comics Lucifer and Maze are married, with the latter being one of the few people Lucifer genuinely cares about. In this version while it's implied that the two have romantic history, they're more friends with benefits with Maze also technically being Lucifer's servant in Season 1, and Lucifer's love interest is instead Canon Foreigner Chloe. As the show goes along their romantic past is downplayed and in the Season 6 Lucifer calls Maze his best friend.
  • While initially antagonistic, Lucifer's relationship with Amenadiel isn't nearly as bad as it was in the comics. After Season 1 their relationship improves greatly, with the two actually encouraging positive character development in the other.
  • His appearance in the Arrowverse, which established he existed in a different universe to many other DC characters, alters his relationship with several:
    • In the comics Lucifer hasn't actually met John Constantine, as when The Sandman (1989) and Hellblazer were made both used the Devil as a character. In order to prevent this confliction, the Hellblazer Devil was called the First of the Fallen and this was the version Constantine actually interacted with. In this idea Lucifer and Constantine come from different realities, but have met before with Lucifer owing him a favour though the two don't get along.
    • The First of the Fallen, also known as Satan, in the comics was the original ruler of Hell until Lucifer deposed him, regaining his title as ruler when Lucifer left. Since Satan and Lucifer come from completely different realities, they have never actually met and instead appeared to be alternate universe counterparts to each other.
• Adaptational Wimp:
  • While this version of Lucifer is no weakling (he is still the Devil) and is one of the most powerful angels (even after losing a bit of power along with his wings), he is nowhere near the level of power of his comic book counterpart. In the comics, one of Lucifer's nicknames is "greatest under the heavens", meaning that he's second only to God, and so far outside of anyone's league that trying to fight him is like trying to fight a natural disaster. In fact, in the comics it was Lucifer that shaped and formed the universe according to God's will BY HIMSELF.
  • As shown in the second season, in a direct fight he seems to be on the same level as Maze, in the comic no demon would be a match for him. He might have been holding back, however, because when they have a rematch in the fifth season he defeats her fairly quickly.
  • In the sixth season Chloe is able to beat him in a fight after getting super strength from Amenadiel's necklace. Granted he was likely holding back to avoid hurting her, but the fact remains that a enhanced human was able to defeat the Devil.
• Affectionate Nickname: Amenadiel tends to call him "Luci". It may sound mocking, especially early on when the two are bitter enemies, but later episodes make it clear that Amenadiel considers it a pet name. Not so when John Constantine uses it in Crisis on Infinite Earths, though.
• Age Lift: It's implied he's actually among the younger siblings. In the comics, Michael and him were the first angels, with them personally helping their father create everything.
• All-Loving Hero: Surprisingly, this is what Lucifer seems to have become by the season five finale. Out of grief and genuine anger for Dan’s death, Lucifer becomes resolved to become God so that no one suffers ever again. In fact, Lucifer’s ascension to Godhood seems to be the result of several factors. First, not only selflessly giving up his life for Chloe’s, but in believing, trying to help and ultimately enabling a soul to finally escape Hell. However, what cements Lucifer as this trope is when Lucifer forgives Michael for his actions, and spares his life by giving him a second chance before declaring everyone deserves a second chance. In Season 6 he proves he is able to care about complete strangers and even people he personally hated, and then decides to return to Hell to spend eternity helping souls reach Heaven.
• All-Powerful Bystander: He doesn't directly assist in the battle against the Anti-Monitor during Crisis On Infinite Earths, which is likely due to the fact he would completely tip the power scale if he actually chose to fight.
• Alternate Self:
  • Has one who exists in an alternate universe created by God as shown in the episode Once Upon a Time, with the main difference being that this version of Lucifer never met Chloe until around 2018 since she never became a police officer and instead chose to be an actress. This means that he missed out on the character development the main universe Lucifer went through, though the episode ended with Chloe deciding to join the police with the implication Lucifer will work with her like in the main universe.
  • Technically has one on Earth-Prime named Satan, who is far more evil than Lucifer and fits the traditional depiction of the Devil. It's possible the other members of the Triumvirate, Beelzebub and Belial, are also his counterparts with Lucifer himself being a Composite Character of all three members as all their names have been mentioned to be aliases and titles for Lucifer.
• Always Someone Better:
  • The antimatter ravaging the dimensions has disrupted even John Constantine's power to reach the afterlife... but the erstwhile ruler of Hell can still create portals where he pleases.
  • To his brother Michael. Michael has lived in Lucifer's shadow all their (immortal) lives and it has bred a lot of resentment between them.
• Ambiguous Situation: The Season 5 finale left us with all the angels and demons present bowing to Lucifer however, considering he has not lost his wings it is left ambiguous if this means he's become head of the angels or actually became the new God. Season 6 explains that while he has the title he has yet to take on the powers and responsibilities, and eventually abdicates to allow Amenadiel to become God.
• Anti-Hero: Started out this way. While he does believe that bad people deserve to be punished, his attitude towards working with the police was less like a hero out for justice and more like a child enjoying the novelty of a new toy.
• Arbitrarily Large Bank Account: Throughout the series, Lucifer is always seen wearing expensive suits, lives in a luxurious penthouse and is constantly able to bribe officials and criminals alike, and shows no hesitation in giving someone who was trying to kill him several gold bars and expensive jewelery. Justified in that he runs an extremely successful nightclub and presumably has a lot of favours he can cache in. Not to mention due to being immortal he's picked up some expensive knick-knacks throughout the ages.
• Arch-Enemy: His twin brother Michael. No one, not even Cain, managed to piss off Lucifer more than Michael did within two episodes of Season Five. By the time of the midseason finale, he's wrought such havoc on Lucifer's life that Lucifer and Amenadiel are just about ready to outright kill him. In turn, Michael is effectively driven by his intense hatred and jealousy he has for Lucifer, to that point that it's the only real emotion he expresses. After learning Michael was indirectly responsible for Dan's death, Lucifer decides to go to war with his brother.
• Artistic License – Religion: Linda claims another of Lucifer's names is Samael, the light-bringer. Samael actually means "Venom of God". Ironically, "Lucifer" is closer to meaning light-bringer than Samael. This is also a bit of Shown Their Work as it matches with his name and history in the comics, which is itself a Shown Their Work reference to real-world angelology; Samael and Lucifer are often identified as the same entity (with "Samael" as that entity's actual name and "Lucifer" as more of a title), but the words don't mean the same thing.
• Aw, Look! They Really Do Love Each Other:
  • Despite their antagonistic relationship in the first season, later seasons make it clear that Lucifer and Amenadiel genuinely do love each other. Lucifer essentially goes back to Hell to protect Amenadiel's son Charlie, and when Michael tries to manipulate Amenadiel, he's the one that keeps on warning his older brother to not let Michael get into his head.
  • In fact, this could apply to most of his siblings. For all the contempt he has for his parents, most of Lucifer's antagonism with his siblings is largely rooted in their devotion to their Father. When that isn't in play, he genuinely does seem to care about them — he had a close relationship with Azrael and was devastated by Uriel's death, even though he killed him to protect Chloe. Remiel's death, despite their rocky relationship, also hits him hard and eventually makes him even more determined to ensure that their brother Michael, Remiel's murderer, does not become God.
  • This even applies to his parents. He rants about his Father all the time and is hardly any better when the guy shows up in person, but when God temporarily renders himself human and susceptible to actual danger, the moment someone threatens him Lucifer flips his lid and beats the crap out of the would-be assailants.
  • For all his constant potshots against Dan, he genuinely sees him as a close friend. After learning Dan was killed as a result of one of Michael's schemes and, thanks to his lingering guilt, is in hell despite all the efforts he went through to become a better person, Lucifer decides to fully commit to becoming God in order to fix the world, even if it means going to war with Michael.
  • Despite how tense his relationship with Maze has gets over the course of the series, he does love her. Given that her almost annual betrayals are immediately forgiven with barely even a mention and the last one was met with understanding and a promotion, it’s very clear she means a lot to him. When she is leaving to go on her honeymoon with Eve he calls her his best friend.
• Back from the Dead:
  • In "Take Me Back to Hell" he's fatally shot by Malcolm, but God brings him back after apparently leading him to the now-vacant cell of Lucifer's mother.
  • In "A Good Day to Die", he willingly dies in order to be sent back to Hell in order to save Chloe's life, but almost ends up trapped there after discovering his own personal Hell. After his mother manages to talk him out of it, Linda is able to resuscitate him.
  • He dies again in "A Chance at a Happy Ending", after he reenters Heaven to bring Chloe back to life, as his banishment from there is technically still in effect. He's initially able to stave it off thanks to the immortality in Lilith's ring, but the energy eventually depletes to the point that it can only bring either Chloe or him back. He obviously chooses Chloe and disintegrates, but with this Heroic Sacrifice he proves himself to be God's rightful successor and is immediately resurrected to take the throne.
• Badass in a Nice Suit: Lucifer is always sharply dressed and ready to scrap at a moment's notice.
• Been There, Shaped History: Aside from having tortured history's greatest's monsters, he personally knew various historical figures, like Sigmund Freud or Oscar Wilde (rather biblically, in the later's case)
• Believing Their Own Lies: In Season 4, Lucifer finally admits that while he does believe with every fiber of his being that his dad is manipulating him with Eve and Chloe he knows that it’s not true and that it’s easier to blame his father than admit he hates himself.
• Benevolent Boss: At least as far as the employees at his nightclub. He speaks to them politely and with respect while all of them seem to genuinely like him.
• Berserk Button:
  • Don't mention how the Devil is associated with goats. He has never done anything with them and has no idea how that came about.^note It was Amenadiel.
  • Calling a woman a bitch in front of him WILL get you in trouble.
  • A horny woman screaming "Oh God" is a real turn-off for him.
    Lucifer: Really? You have to bring him up?!
  • Calling him Samael is a sure-fire way to stoke his rage.
  • Never blame him for the wrongdoings of humanity. He doesn't like it when you do.
  • Never ever tell him that he's just like his parents.
  • Demons possessing humans is also a sure way to piss him off, as Dromos learns.
    Lucifer: You're lucky I haven't incinerated you already for disobeying my orders, no. More. Possession!
  • Being called evil - he's not evil, he punishes evil. This was enough to get him to jump into a boxing ring with Amenadiel in what was meant to be a fixed fight.
  • While he dislikes being around children, seeing kids or teenagers being hurt infuriates him. He's outraged when Malcolm kills some Satanists because they were just misguided kids and later hands out a brutal beating to an avocado farmer who was using runaway teenagers as slave labor.
• Betty and Veronica: Downplayed. While he is a Jerk with a Heart of Gold, he seems to be the Veronica to Marcus' Betty towards Chloe's Archie, being a slut with few regards to proper police procedure and criminal ties due to his hedonistic lifestyle.
• Betty and Veronica Switch: The Reveal that Marcus is the Sinnerman and Cain, the first killer firmly plants Lucifer as the Betty, genuinely wanting justice to be done, being completely honest and wanting what's best for Chloe.
• Beware the Nice Ones: Lucifer is very polite and chipper, if a bit creepy to those immune to his charms (who are few and far between). People tend to forget that he is still nominally in charge of bringing eternal suffering upon those who sin.
• Brooding Boy, Gentle Girl: Is the Brooding Boy to Chloe's Gentle Girl.
• Brought Down to Normal: Lucifer thought for a while that he had simply become mortal because Chloe shot him in the leg and the bullet did damage to him. It turns out that proximity to Chloe makes Lucifer mortal and as he puts it, it makes him feel vulnerable. This also explains why his powers of persuasion don't work on her.
• Brutal Honesty: Has this in spades, despite the Devil's reputation. He has a code of honor that involves never lying and always keeping his end of the deals he makes with people. He also doesn't understand human behavior or emotions that well, especially in the first season, so he tends to say things out loud that make the humans around him uncomfortable. This extends to talking about his own personal issues, such as in season 4, when he realizes that self-hatred is the reason he is always so eager to blame his father for things, and discusses this personal revelation openly with a lot of people.
• Bunny-Ears Lawyer: Chloe puts up with his bizarre behavior (ranging from blatant sexual harassment to the apparent delusion that he's the Devil) because Lucifer's connections and powers of persuasion help her solve crimes.
• But Not Too Bi: Despite his canon bisexuality, Lucifer is mostly shown in bed with women (with the occasional man pointedly being on the other side of the bed or room). While he does have flings with both sexes (and is shown to prefer women), his attraction to men never gets more than the occasional nod (and his one on-screen kiss with a man is clearly played for comedy).
• Byronic Hero: Less so than in the comics but he fits. He's very attractive and intelligent, driven by his conflict against authority, (namely his father, who is THE authority). He is plagued by self-loathing, and often is many ways isolated from the rest of humanity by his true nature. Despite his flaws, he is still charismatic and sympathetic, and adheres to his own kind of moral code. The difference between this version and the comics is that he is more restrained about getting what he wants.

C-D

• Cain and Abel: He has this with many of his siblings, with many viewing him as the Cain since he's the rebellious fallen angel. However it's actually Zig-Zagged:
  • Ironically, he's the Abel to Amenadiel's Cain in the first season. While selfish and uncaring, Lucifer is the younger sibling using his abilities to help a human detective solve crimes and catch criminals while Amenadiel is the older sibling searching for a way to send Lucifer back to Hell and after learning of his mortality issues becomes willing to have Lucifer be killed. However it's Averted as Amenadiel does come to realise that he was wrong for doing this and while still antagonistic at first the two slowly fix their relationship and become far closer by the later seasons.
  • With Uriel, with the trope being inverted when the younger Lucifer kills his older brother to stop Uriel from killing Chloe.
  • Like with Amenadiel, Lucifer is the Abel to Michael's Cain. Whereas Michael viciously hates Lucifer with every fiber of his being, Lucifer remains largely ambivalent to his twin brother. He only really started developing animosity for Michael when he tried to impersonate Lucifer and screw around with his life on Earth. It took Michael revealing that he had been manipulating Lucifer all their lives death to make his brother actually attack him.
• The Cameo: He makes a surprise guest appearance in the Arrowverse 2019 crossover event, with the reality of his show being designated as Earth-666 and confirmed by Word of God to be set prior to Season 1. As it turns out he's acquainted with the Constantine of Earth-Prime and owes him a favour for something related to Maze, is perfectly aware of The Multiverse and how it's currently being destroyed but doesn't actually care, and helped Constantine, Mia Smoak and John Diggle in reaching Purgatory in order to save the soul of Oliver Queen.
• Camp Gay: Not as flamboyant as the trope is usually played, but Lucifer is very flirty and extroverted, in addition to being bisexual.
• Cannot Spit It Out: Has a perpetual case of this. He simply cannot bring himself to say to Chloe those three little words, even though he very much feels them. Michael takes advantage of this to try and destroy Lucifer and Chloe's relationship in the Season 5A finale. Sadly in "Family Dinner", he believe it's because he's incapable of loving anyone. After eventually realizing that isn't the case, he finally says it to Chloe before his Heroic Sacrifice in the Season 5B finale.
• The Casanova: There isn't a day where he doesn't try to flirt with a beautiful woman. He also tries it with Chloe at first, and is surprised that his charms don't work on her at all.
• Cassandra Truth: He's pretty open about who and what he really is, for all the good it does him. After all, there's no way The Devil would live among humans, right?
• Character Catchphrase:
  • Will always introduce himself a particular way.
    Lucifer: Lucifer... [Beat] ...Morningstar.
  • In "Weaponizer", he tries to establish "It's Devil Time". Nobody knows what he wants to say by this, and by the next episode, he has dropped the phrase.
  • And of course, "What is it that you truly desire?"
  • Also he would often say “Hello.” If something or someone interested him.
• Character Development: He goes from utterly self-centered to self-sacrificing within the first season: in the finale, he's already dying, and thus already headed to Hell, but this quintessential rebellious son's promises his dad, that is, the person he hates the most in all of Creation, to meekly obey from now on, if only God will spare Chloe. And by the time the fourth season's finale rolls around, he grows selfless enough to willingly going back to Hell so as to protect everyone on Earth, even though this costs him his relationship with Chloe. Don't forget that anyone curtaining his free will and freedom of choice is his ultimate bugbear. In the last two seasons he comes to see that the way the afterlife works is fundamentally broken and wishes to change it by trying to become God, but ultimately realizes that being God isn't his actual calling and instead gives his support to Amenadiel. Instead his experiences during Season 6 and his encounter with his time travelling daughter Rory lead him to the conclusion that his actual purpose is to help the damned souls of Hell to come to terms with their sins and forgive themselves so they can go to Heaven, with Rory explaining that this would be the reason why he would have to leave her and Chloe which will lead her to time travel in the first place. Despite knowing he will never get to see his daughter grow up Rory, Chloe and himself accept that trying to change the future could prevent Lucifer from ever realizing what he must do. Lucifer therefore returns to Hell, the kingdom he was forced to rule and eventually abandoned, to help the souls being tortured. The way he chooses to help people also reflects his development as he essentially becomes their therapist, where his decision to listen to their problems and give advice makes him even more different from the self absorbed patient he once was with Linda.
• Characterization Marches On: In the first season Lucifer was portrayed as an amoral character going through an identity crisis, with both Amenadiel and Maze claiming that his time on Earth has caused him to change. This implies that prior to the series Lucifer was closer to the traditional depiction of the Devil, and as the show continued it was made clear that Lucifer hated himself and believed he was a monster which was the source of his Devil Face. However the show never went into the specifics of his rebellion beyond his affair with Eve and two flashback episodes show that he wasn't that different from his Season 1 characterization and in some ways he was even better. As a result it appears that he was never this evil figure everyone believed him to be, though it's possible that Michael did his best to ruin Lucifer's reputation amongst his siblings.
• Child Hater: "Hate" may be too strong a word, but Lucifer is visibly uncomfortable around children and avoids interacting with them. This is best exemplified in his relationship with Trixie; he often tries to distract her by showing her something interesting or trying to get her to play fetch, as if she was a pet, and always steps back when she tries to get close to him. He also refers to her as being Chloe's "Offspring" rather than "child" or "daughter". He does seem to be warming up to her by season four, claiming he would never intentionally let anyone hurt her after gunmen storm his penthouse while Trixie's there. He's also willing to hold his baby nephew, Charlie, but does hand him back to Amenadiel after a few seconds.
  • Part of the reason for his discomfort around children may be that he has no experience with them. Children as young as Trixie can't be sent to Hell when they die because they haven't reached a level of maturity where they're actually capable of sinning and being held accountable for their actions.
• Child Supplants Parent: Well, he tried to anyway. He quite famously he rebelled against his father and was cast from Heaven for his troubles.
• Cloudcuckoolander's Minder: To his dad, of all people. He calls out his father on making everyone randomly break out in song and dance with his powers, and is the first one to questions God's decision to temporarily make himself human. He's actually more sensible in trying to moderate his father's actions than Amenadiel is.
• Comically Missing the Point: A running theme is that an episode will open with Lucifer getting some advice (often from Linda), misunderstanding it, and then comically trying to apply that advice to whatever case he's working on that episode. He tends to figure it out properly come the episode's end when he recognizes a Commonality Connection between him and the episode's suspect.
• Commander Contrarian: Downplayed. Much like Amenadiel, Lucifer is under the belief that everything that happens is in someway tied to God’s divine plan (which he may or may not be correct on). Unlike Amenadiel, who tries to take steps to stay within that plan and seeking to correct anything to the contrary, Lucifer goes out of his way to try and defy the plan and tries avoiding the subject all together (within his own system of ethics of course).
• Compelling Voice: He's able to compel people to reveal their deepest desires.
• Composite Character: He's the only Devil in this version, while in the comics there is the First of the Fallen who he dethroned.
• The Corrupter: Lucifer can do this, though as he points out, he has no influence over people's choices. All he does is draw out their innermost desires and maybe verbally manipulate them from there.
• Curb-Stomp Battle: Dishes out those to most of his opponents, who are well out of their depth since they're usually mortals while he's the Devil. However, two examples stand out:
  • In the Season 3's finale, he utterly demolishes Cain, who's a skilled enough fighter to hold his own against Amenadiel, even without his Super-Strength, only using at the end for the finishing blow.
  • In "Spoiler Alert", he spends most of his fight dodging and blocking Maze's blows, and only ever hits her three times. Two of those sent her flying, the last one knocking her out for good.
• Dark Is Not Evil: Lucifer is literally the Devil, has dark hair and tends to dress in all black, but helps Detective Chloe Decker solve crimes and bring criminals to justice. Unlike the way History has portrayed him, Lucifer's job is to punish evil, not act as the source of all evil.
• Deadpan Snarker: Definitely. This is how he reacts to Amenadiel trying to bring him back:
  Amenadiel: Your return to The Underworld has been requested.
  Lucifer: Oh right, well, let me just check my calendar. Yeah, here it is: Uh...The seventh of never through to the fifteenth of ain't-gonna-happen, how's that work for you guys?
• Deal with the Devil: A more benevolent version. Regularly invokes these with people, though not over souls. He does favors for people at the price of a favor he can call in down the road.
• Death Seeker: Twice.
  • In the finale of Season 1, when Chloe thinks that he's responsible for the death of the street preacher and points a gun at him, he taunts one of the officers, telling him to shoot him. When Amenadiel rescues him from the scene, Lucifer asks his brother to take him back to Hell.
  • Again in Season 2 after killing his brother Uriel. He stands in front of a woman who's being targeted, and practically begs the sniper to shoot him.
• Debt Detester: Lucifer owes Constantine a favor for a Noodle Incident involving Mazikeen. He's very clear that he's happy to be rid of this debt before the world ends, and our heroes can expect no further help from him with the Crisis.
• Devil Complex: Averted. He most definitely is Satan himself, but everyone thinks he's playing a character or is just crazy. This usually lasts until he goes red-eye mode or shows his Game Face.
• Do Not Call Me "Paul": A surefire way to make Lucifer pissed is to call him by his real name Samael. Linda's wall gets a hole punched through it after she provoked him multiple times with said name, and when Lucifer talks to God Johnson, who repeatedly calls him Samael instead of Lucifer, he's a second away from attacking him before Linda interrupts them. The only time Lucifer doesn't get pissed at being called Samael is when his actual father God himself uses it to get Lucifer to calm down after he goes devil mode on a bunch of drug dealers who were trying to kill God.
• The Dreaded: Twofold — first, when people know/realize who Lucifer really is. He's not the Lord of Darkness for nothing. Second, he has this status In-Universe among those who know him, with the record producer making reference to having seen Lucifer's 'freaky powers' up close and personal before.
• Drives Like Crazy: "Stewardess Interruptus" has him speeding down a runway, while a plane is attempting takeoff, in order to apprehend the suspect piloting it. Another, more serious incident has him pulling this off in "A Good Day to Die" when he tries to drive Chloe to the hospital.
• Drowning My Sorrows: Tries doing this in "Monster" after killing Uriel. He tries to smother his guilt and grief in his own hedonistic tendencies (sex, alcohol, etc). It doesn't work.

E-H

• Ethical Slut: Lucifer is extremely promiscuous, but his lovers always have a good time and part with him without any hard feelings.
• Even the Guys Want Him: In his own words: "I'm so good at flipping men, they call me "The Skillet"."
• Everyone Has Standards:
  • Lucifer retains essentially the same standards as in the comics. In particular, he is absolutely honest and particularly loathes hypocrites.
  • As much as he wants to have sex with Chloe he refuses to take advantage of her drunken state in order to do so.
  • Seems to have a similarly distasteful look on rape. When a killer reveals she was raped by a now-dead yoga teacher, he looks particularly disgusted when piecing it together on his own, and even tells Chloe and Dan that she acted in self-defense so she can get away with it.
  • While Lucifer is not above petty revenge, he is a firm believer in Laser-Guided Karma and that the punishment should fit the crime. If the desired vengeance goes too far (especially if it leads to murder), all snappy comebacks will be put to bed and a rant will ensue.
  • Even he has to occasionally admit that there are good people on this Earth and he will angrily rant and rave towards Heaven and his father's indifference to those who try their best to live by the rules.
  • Despite what stories about him would have people believe, he doesn't actually buy souls, which is exactly what his comic counterpart says in The Sandman (1989). His deal is punishing the sinful, not corrupting the virtuous.
  • He has a strict ban on Demonic Possession. Demons that break this ban get no sympathy from him and he is absolutely brutal when dealing with them.
  • While Lucifer is fine with fornication, adultery in other people and polyamorous "coupling", he wouldn't go so far when he and Chloe are together. In-fact, it is when Chloe catches Michael impersonating Lucifer and Maze in the middle of foreplay in "Lucifer! Lucifer! Lucifer!" that confirms her suspicions that he isn't the real Lucifer.
  • When he finds out that Jimmy Barnes' mother abandoned him as a child, Lucifer is just as horrified as Chloe is.
• Everybody Hates Hades: In-universe, he is occasionally frustrated that some people accuse him of being evil and stating "the devil made them do it" thanks to church and pop-culture. In actuality he is only ruling hell and punishes evil people, having nothing to do with their actions when alive. This is in line with early stories about the devil before religious retellints started to make the devil more evil.
• Evil Sounds Deep: While his normal speaking voice is already fairly deep, when he's in his full demonic form it gets even lower.
• Exact Words: Although his word is his bond and he won't break a promise, he can decide to hew rather closely to a strict interpretation of that promise.
  Lucifer: I promised to let you go alone. I never said I wouldn't follow you.
• Female Flatfoot and Snarky Guy: The Snarky Guy to Chloe's Female Flatfoot. He helps her solve different cases by using his connections and Compelling Voice, but he's rather flippant with proper procedure and an outright Anti-Hero.
• Flaming Devil: Downplayed as being bisexual rather than Camp Gay. His bisexuality doesn't come up very often, but he's very sassy and flashy and his extreme hedonism is pushed to the forefront.
• Freudian Excuse: It's implied that his jerkass ways are a cover for his history of crippling, existential loneliness over the thousands of years of his existence, the scorn he receives from his angel kin, silence and abandonment from his omnipotent father, and humanity's tendency to blame and demonize him for their own shortcomings. Highlighted and lampshaded in "Pops".
• The Gadfly: Lucifer enjoys annoying people, and he's really, really good at it.
• Game Face: Lucifer is quite fond of flashing his true demonic appearance at the people he wishes to punish for their misdeeds.
• Good Counterpart: It's not clear how he relates to the First of the Fallen from Earth-Prime. This was also a problem with the DC Comics Canon Welding Hellblazer and The Sandman (1989), with the comics eventually settling on the two being similar but entirely separate beings. Here, Constantine has formerly described the First as a former angel on his show and Lucifer has used the title "first of the fallen" for himself on his. Assuming they are Alternate Universe versions of the same character, Lucifer is clearly more benign than the Earth-Prime Satan, as well as a Sexier Alter Ego.
• Good Wings, Evil Wings: Lucifer normally has brilliantly white feathered angel wings until Season 4 reveals that the events that went down in the interim turned them into the black clawed bat wings one usually associates with demons. He's seriously freaked out, if not outright terrified by this.
  • Later played even straighter, Lucifer has brilliant white wings while his twin Michael has black ones.
• Guyliner: Downplayed as it's definitely not as intense as it could be, but it certainly helps to bring attention to his eyes during his most mesmerizing scenes.
• Guys Smash, Girls Shoot: Chloe's chosen weapon is usually her gun, given that she's a detective, while Lucifer prefers hand-to-hand combat.
• Handsome Lech: Even with the Crisis at hand, he can't help but hit on every pretty woman in sight, including an obviously pissed off and grieving Mia, and Diggle, seeing his hostility towards him as flirting...
• The Hedonist: Cares only about having fun and getting to just screw around. The only reason he really helps solve crime with Chloe is because he is either personally invested in the case or because it sounds fun. Also, he enjoys punishing the guilty, so long as it's on his terms.
  Lucifer: (said with a beaming smile) I'll punish them, any method you prefer. Nice, solid flogging. Get the old swamp nuts in a vice, y'know.
• Heroic BSoD:
  • He has a huge one after being forced to kill Uriel.
  • He later has a smaller-scale one after Linda helps him realise that he's in love with Chloe.
• Hero's Classic Car: He drives a black 1962 Chevrolet Corvette C1 with a Vanity License Plate that reads FALL1N1 (Fallen One). In the alternate universe seein in "Once Upon a Time" he drives the same model of car but it's red instead of black. "Expire Erect" reveals he also owns a red Aston Martin DB 5.
• Humanity Is Infectious: Maze and Amenadiel point out the change in him almost constantly in Season 1.

I-L

• I Am a Monster: Often times Lucifer doesn't see himself as a very good person, and humans blaming the Devil for all the evil that has occurred deeply upsets him. Part of the reason why he, while never lying, never really reveals to Chloe who he is, is that he is afraid of her reaction when she finds out that him being the Devil is not a metaphor. In Season 3, however, he is very concerned that he can't reveal his devil face anymore and gets his wings back, though it turns out that no one, especially not his father, took his face. He simply began to see himself in a better way. After killing Cain, he gets his face back, and this time Chloe can clearly see it as well. In Season 4, he wrestles with this conflict again following Chloe’s painful rejection when the truth comes out, backsliding into less morally sound behaviors and struggling to control his powers.
• I Gave My Word: Almost exact words from the one History calls the Prince of Lies. In-universe, he is 100% honest, 100% of the time.
  Lucifer: My word is my bond.
• Ignored Epiphany: Numerous times, Lucifer learns some lesson about others or has an epiphany about himself, but ignores it or forgets it come the next episode. Somewhat justified due to just who he is and the mountains of psychological issues he's struggling with; getting over such things can take a lot of time in real life, and Lucifer hasn't tried going to a therapist in all his thousands of years of existence until just recently.
• I Just Want to Be Loved: In "Homewrecker", Linda thinks this is the real reason Lucifer left Hell — and that he's found it with Chloe.
  Linda: I think you did come to Los Angeles looking for something. But I also think you've stopped...because maybe you've found it?
• Immune to Bullets:
  • It seems that when Lucifer is taken by surprise, he can be temporarily killed, but otherwise bullets aren't even an annoyance. They don't even seem to scratch his clothing.
    Chloe: I saw him shoot you...
    Lucifer: You're really having trouble with this whole immortality thing, aren't you?
  • Apparently, subverted in Episode 4. Chloe shoots him, and it does exactly what you'd expect would happen when you shoot someone in the leg.
  • In Episode 11, it's once again in effect. This instance is what allows Lucifer to deduce that this trope only works for him when Chloe isn't around (or rather he's only mortal when she IS around).
  • Back in effect even around Chloe as of “Spoiler Alert,” to Chloe’s concern due to the psychosomatic nature of Lucifer’s invulnerability.
• Inferiority Superiority Complex: Lucifer sometimes jumps between bragging about himself to thinking that he's a monster who deserves to be punished.
• Informed Flaw: At the start of the show, everyone claimed that his time on Earth had changed him with Lucifer showing more noble qualities and a caring side that concerned both Maze and Amenadiel. They also consistently reminded him that he was the Devil and is therefore evil, with all of this suggesting that before the series began Lucifer was in fact a monstrous person. However this was never actually shown to be true, with Lucifer instead only being shown to be self absorbed and selfish before Character Development began to change that. It wasn't long until Characterization Marches On set in, as several flashbacks show that he wasn't that different from his personality in Season 1 while several comments imply that not only did he keep the demons from harming humanity while ruling Hell, but his rebellion was hardly something worth being condemned to Hell for.
• Innocently Insensitive: Mixed with a bit of Brutal Honesty, but he unwillingly pisses off several people with his lack of tact and below-average understanding of human society.
• Intrigued by Humanity: Or at least by Chloe and certain humans. For the most part, humans and their quirks seem to annoy, confuse, or possibly disgust him.
• Irony: Lucifer spend the first five seasons ranting about how his absent father is the source of all his problems. Cue Season 6, his daughter from the future show up, and she started to rant about how her absent father (Lucifer) is the source of all her problems.
• It's All About Me: His usual motivation, although he does slip into selflessness every now and then. More than once, this drives Chloe away when he does things like walk away from an active investigation because it's ceased to interest him. His actions in the final episode show him abandoning this mindset completely as he dedicates himself to helping damned souls with their issues.
• It's All My Fault: The reason he hates it when mortals blame their sins on him? It's because he's secretly afraid that, in spite of his protests to the contrary, they're actually right.
• It's Personal:
  • Delilah's murder, since he feels partly responsible for her death, having put her in that position by influencing her career as an actress.
  • He's at first bored at the notion of a security guard being murdered over a storage container. Not so much when he learns it is his storage container and the one containing his wings at that.
  • The reason why he returned from Hell in Season 5 is because Amenadiel revealed that Michael had been screwing with their collective loved ones. After finding out how much Michael has been manipulating his life, he straight out loses it and attacks Michael, going as far as to permanently scar his brother's face.
• Jack Bauer Interrogation Technique: Lucifer is a "consultant" for the LAPD and doesn't know, need to, or care about following proper procedure. Chloe usually has to rein him in when he starts pulling this trope, to varying degrees of success.
• Jerk with a Heart of Gold: Troll, favours Pay Evil unto Evil as per his occupation, often very self-centered, but is actually an incredibly kind man.
• A Lady on Each Arm: How he's introduced in Crisis on Infinite Earths (2019), walking out of a club with two dates.
• Ladykiller in Love: Lucifer, who has charmed and slept with possibly thousands of women, realizes in Season 2's "Homewrecker" that he's in love with Chloe.
• Lampshade Hanging: It's practically a Running Gag that people keep walking in on Lucifer at inopportune moments via the elevator to his penthouse. It takes until Season 4 for him to realize that he should really put a lock on the elevator doors.
• Loophole Abuse: An expert at using these in his infamous deals. Come "Lady Parts", and it's made abundantly clear that someone upstairs is not amused. It later turns out to be Uriel.
• Louis Cypher: The Devil assumes the human identity of "Lucifer Morningstar" (a name which easily gives away his true identity) on Earth. However it's downplayed by the fact that he's completely honest and often tells people his true identity is the Devil (though almost nobody believes him when he does so).
• Lovable Sex Maniac:
  • Though he leans in the direction of women, Lucifer has had a number of both male and female lovers, and enjoys Eating the Eye Candy for both men and women.
  • In Season 3 he casually lists all social media he's on; it starts with Instagram and ends with Grindr (the last one being a dating/relationship/hook-up site for gay/bi men looking for other gay/bi men).

M-N

• Malicious Misnaming: He mispronounces Constantine's name just to be a jerk.
• Manchild: While not of the psychopathic variety, Lucifer does act like a snarky immature preteen with no self-awareness or sense of propriety.
• Manipulative Bastard: Again, this is Lucifer we're talking about.
• Man of Wealth and Taste: Lucifer is impeccably dressed, owns a nightclub, and is very well spoken. Oh, and he's actually Satan.
• Massive Numbered Siblings: He has countless angelic siblings, and it's strongly implied that he's the youngest boy.
• Master of the Mixed Message: Toward Chloe in Season 2 after coming to term with his feelings for her. This is especially bad in "Candy Morningstar" where he gleefully introduces his new wife to her, tells her they are Just Friends yet later he publicly sings a love song to her.
• Mayfly–December Friendship: He's the Devil, making him older than all of his human friends by several billion years since he was created before God created the Earth and humanity.
• Mayfly–December Romance: Since he's the Devil, he's many billions of years older than any of his lovers and would outlive them all, which is somewhat acknowledged when he visits some of his flings from 1999 with many noting that he hasn't aged at all after twenty-two years.
• Mistaken for Racist: In the pilot:
  Lucifer: My name is Lucifer Morningstar.
  2Vile: Lucifer Morningstar? That's a gay hip-hop name.
  Lucifer: Well, that offends me.
  2Vile: You have a problem with black people?
  Lucifer: No, not in the slightest. I just hate your music. And when I say "your music", I mean your music, not the music made by other black people. Without the blues there would be no Devil's music whatsoever. There are of course many giants in the field. Just not you. Am I being clear?
• Messianic Archetype: Of all people, the Devil ironically fits this. The series ends with him descending to Hell, but for the noble purpose of saving the souls of all who damn themselves to it.
• Mr. Fanservice: He's extremely attractive and has appeared stark naked (albeit censored by the scenery) on two occasions.
  • Season 4 saw an amusing uptick in fanservice after the show moved to Netflix and its more lenient censorship standards. Nearly every episode contains a scene with Lucifer in some state of undress. Hell, literally, the teaser trailer for season 4 was nothing but him doing a Sexy Surfacing Shot from a pool, with multiple gratuitous shots of his body.
• Mr. Vice Guy: He is vain, smug, has a hard time thinking of anything outside of his own personal problems, blames a lot of those problems on his dad, tends to enact vengeance without thinking it through half of the time, sleeps around a lot and likes to encourage these very same sins on other people under the idea that they are urges that shouldn't be repressed. He is the Devil, after all. As the series goes on, it slowly dawns on him that these various vices aren't as harmless as he thinks they are and learns to be better.
• My God, What Have I Done?: Lucifer is quite willing to torture the guilty, punish the deserving, and even kill if that's necessary but when he's forced to kill Uriel with Azrael's blade, which doesn't just kill but condemns the victim's soul to complete non-existence, utterly destroying it forever, he's completely dazed and in shock at what he's done.
• Nay-Theist: Much like Amenadiel, Lucifer sees the world under the idea that everything is according to God's grand plan, having known him personally. Unlike Amenadiel however, Lucifer finds the idea of his father meddling in his affairs annoying and will often curse him out when something especially tragic or miraculous occurs.
• Never My Fault: Lucifer blames all his issues regarding his mother on his father for throwing her out, his mother for ignoring him, Amenadiel for not stopping his mother's escape from Hell, Chloe from distracting him, and Dr. Martin for not getting him over his personal issues (the last after she asks him if he's perhaps overlooking someone who might have some responsibility as well). He finally realizes and accepts that he isn't blameless.
• Noble Demon: This version of Lucifer isn't in the business of causing pain and suffering for his own amusement (most of the time). Instead, he uses his abilities to bring suffering upon those who deserve it while happening to help those in need in the process.
• Noodle Incident: He has a history of some kind with John Constantine and owed him a favour for helping Maze.
• No Social Skills: It's subtle, but Lucifer is kind of bad at interacting with humans outside of his hedonistic ways. He's often dismissive of the victim's loved ones, asks questions to the suspects that are blatantly about him, insults (voluntarily or not) almost everyone around him, is Brutally Honest and direct in his approach, and has misinterpreted someone's sayings on more than one occasion.

O-T

• Oblivious to Their Own Description: When hearing people describe him in unflattering ways, Lucifer is prone to assuming that they're referring to someone else. Usually Dan. When Lucifer described Rory, his and Chloe's future daughter, to Amenadiel, he seems oblivious that he's also describing himself, to which Amenadiel lampshaded by mentioning that "Maybe she's your daughter".
• Odd Couple: Lucifer likes working by his own rules when investigating and punishing those guilty, even when working with the LAPD. Chloe has to keep him on a short leash when on the job, but she sticks by him because she admits that she's been more successful with him as her partner.
• Odd Friendship:
  • Strikes up a bond with a preacher, believe it or not. To the point that the man's death drives Lucifer into a blind fury.
  • Although he's still uncomfortable around her, seeing as she's a child, he strikes up a bond with Chloe's daughter Trixie.
• Official Couple: What Lucifer and Chloe finally become in season Five to the delight of Linda and Ella.
• Offscreen Teleportation: He can somehow get out of a locked car and into a locked house without any sign of breaking out or in. Later, he moves from street level to a ledge several floors up a building in moments.
• Ominous Walk: Does this to Renny in "Favorite Son".
• Omniglot: According to himself and his mother, he speaks every language there is, so he's as literal an example as it gets. Emphasis on 'speaks', though; he folds when he's confronted with ancient Sumerian writing in Season 2.
• Once Done, Never Forgotten: Millions of years later and his siblings still bring up that he rebelled against their father with Zadkiel and Remiel having the most scorn for him (although it’s implied they didn’t get along before hand and Remiel in particular distastes his hendonism and frolicking with humans). Infact the reason most of them support Michael (despite hateing him more) is in part because they don’t trust their “fallen” brother on the throne.
• One True Love: Chloe. Not only has Lucifer never loved anyone else but her, but Chloe was literally made for him by the hand of his Father. When Lucifer finds this out, he fears that their entire relationship is a sham and that she's just a tool his Father is using to manipulate them both. It takes him some time to accept that this isn't the case.
• Otaku: He enjoys the Body Bag ninja movies. He bonds with Dan over this.
• Papa Wolf:
  • Holds enough of a concern for Trixie that he scares off a bully who was tormenting her and went after Malcolm along with Chloe after he kidnapped her.
  • In Season 4, two gunmen storm Lucifer's penthouse in order to kill him. Trixie is there, and they threaten to shoot her (and Eve) so they don't leave any witnesses. Cue an enraged Lucifer storming out of his bedroom and disarming both gunmen without any effort whatsoever.
  • Despite his earlier reluctance, he's also protective over his nephew, Charlie. After demons kidnap Charlie and try to use him to replace Lucifer as the King of Hell, Lucifer retakes his rightful place so Charlie can remain safe.
  • After accepting Rory really is his Kid from the Future he becomes extremely protective over her. In the series finale he and Chloe are furious when Le Mec kidnaps Rory and personally go to rescue her.
• The Paragon: Becomes this in the Grand Finale when he realises that his true purpose isn't to punish the guilty or ensure that damned souls remain in Hell, but to help them come to terms with their guilt and become better people so they will be worthy of going to Heaven regardless of the sins they committed or even his own opinion of them.
• Parental Sexuality Squick: Despite being very open about sex and having had countless lovers over the years, he does not want to know about Goddess' sex life and becomes furious at finding out that she slept with Dan.
• Pay Evil unto Evil: Subscribes to this school of thought, being willing (and almost glad) to seriously harm criminals.
• Perma-Stubble: Almost never seen without his 5-o'clock shadow, which stays groomed throughout the episodes.
• Pornomancer: Many, many women are sexually attracted to Lucifer, and he says that he's like "walking heroin" in the bedroom.
• Power Incontinence: Briefly suffers from this near the end of Season 4 when he loses control over his "what is it you desire?" shtick. It's strong enough to affect everyone at Lux instantly, and Lucifer wasn't even consciously doing it to anyone in the first place. Both him and Chloe are seriously freaked out by it, but at least it helps solve the case of the week.
• Precision F-Strike: As of now, Lucifer is the only character that dropped the f-bomb, and that was at the very end of "Daniel Espinoza: Naked and Afraid".
  Because you fucking shot me, Daniel.
• Proud Beauty: Overall, Lucifer is well aware of being attractive and often boasts about his good looks.
• Puppy-Dog Eyes: Is distressingly good at these, especially after he shows his true face to Linda.
• Psychological Projection: Lucifer tends to project himself into many episodic characters and thinks that they are the same as him, (especially when it comes to problems with his parents). In most episodes it turns out not to be the case, and the character in which Lucifer cast himself turns out not to be as similar as he first believed.
• Really Gets Around: Apparently, he gets it from his mother.
• Red Eyes, Take Warning:
  • When pissed at someone, his eyes become great pools of fire. Maze pushes him to get this response specifically to see if he is still capable of being the cruel tyrant she knows he can be.
  • He also uses this to scare Trixie's bully in the pilot by turning his eyes red with goat-like pupils that resemble mouths.
  • His devil eyes briefly become permanent in Season 4 when his self-loathing turns him more and more into his true devil form against his will. He first uses sunglasses to hide it, then a devil mask during a masquerade party at Lux until Chloe finally manages to talk some sense into him, which reverts him to his usual handsome self.
• Refuge in Audacity: Most people know who he is because he's, despite most stereotypes, rather honest. Whether they believe him upon first contact is...varied, to say the least.
• Satan: He's the full-deal fallen angel who was cast out of Heaven and now rules over Hell. When he's not vacationing in Los Angeles, that is.
• Satan Is Good: Lucifer is self-centered, not very good at controlling his temper and perhaps a little too into being The Gadfly, but he's otherwise a decent person. His only interest in evil is bringing it to justice. In the final episode he becomes a therapist to all the souls in Hell with the intent of helping them deal with their issues so they can go to Heaven.
• Screw This, I'm Outta Here: Once he learns about the way his parents have been manipulating him, he leaves Los Angeles at the end of "A Good Day to Die" without so much as a proper good-bye to anyone.
• Secret Public Identity:
  • Lucifer is quite happy to tell everybody his real name, since no one actually believes he is who he is — except for the priest at the record producer's wedding, who seems to recognize Lucifer and crosses himself. Mind you, that reaction could simply be because Lucifer's crashed the wedding.
  • As of "Monster" Dr. Martin knows as well; though what we don't know yet is what she'll do with the information.
  • By Season 4 Chloe knows, and it is revealed that an investigatory sect of the Vatican has known about and observed him for awhile.
• Sesquipedalian Loquaciousness: Slightly downplayed, but he does tend to use expressions no other character would think about, as befits a person who's lived thousands of years, with a quite rapid delivery.
• Sex for Services: He happily whores himself out for favors on a regular basis. This is how he initially paid Linda for her therapy.
• Sex God: He sleeps with a lot of people, and most of his partners say how "it was the best night of [their] life". Linda was also for a while Lucifer's lover, and when her still-married husband, Reese, confronts her with the fact that she is sleeping with the Devil (which Linda at this point doesn't know yet), she tells Reese off by explaining that she genuinely enjoys her time with Lucifer, as he is very attentive and not demanding at all, unlike her husband. When it comes to sex, Lucifer knows what his partners desire and he happily obliges.
• Shameless Fanservice Guy: He greets Chloe in the nude in a misguided attempt to get her to sleep with him, and in a later episode has no problems with stripping off in public in order to gift his clothing to a homeless man.
• Sharp-Dressed Man: Expensive, smart suits are his main day-to-day attire.
• Sibling Rivalry: With his brother Michael, though it's mostly one-sided. While Michael has resented Lucifer since forever due to constantly being in his brother's shadow, Lucifer finds the rivalry largely beneath him and was mostly content to ignore Michael. It took Michael screwing around with his life on Earth and revealing his constant manipulation of his brother since the dawn of time for Lucifer to actually get angry at him — which did not end well for Michael.
• Slasher Smile: If you've really pissed him off, then he starts grinning full force while he's beating your ass.
  • He smiles in this very fashion while slicing across Michael's face with one of Maze's demon knives.
• Smug Super: Very much so.
• Sophisticated as Hell: Enjoys peppering his posh speech delivered in a British accent with an occasional Precision F-Strike or two, particularly to try and shock the Detective.
• Star-Crossed Lovers: With Chloe by the end of Season 6, though they are eventually reunited after she dies of natural causes and Amendadiel brings her down to Hell to spend eternity with him.
• Super-Strength: If he wants to, a slight tap from him can send a large man flying through a window and a few feet beyond that.
• Surrounded by Idiots: He certainly feels this way after meeting a cultist group of Satan worshipers. He's outraged by their lack of understanding and misconception of him and gives them a big "The Reason You Suck" Speech.
• Tranquil Fury: "Take me back to Hell" is full of this. He is incredibly furious with Malcolm over what he's done but keeps his chipper exterior.
• Tall, Dark, and Handsome: Charlotte (the real one, not the one possessed by Lucifer's mother) uses those very words to describe him. Even Dan, who doesn't get along with Lucifer, is willing to admit that he's really good-looking.
• Tall, Dark, and Snarky: Check, check, and check.
• Tarot Motifs: Lucifer can create a Tarot card displaying the Major Arcanum XV - The Devil that serves as a temporary passport into the afterlife.
• Then Let Me Be Evil: Downplayed. After he causes the death of Joan, a police officer, Dan tells him that he's not one of the good guys. This guilt, along with Dan's words and his general sense of justice, is what pushes him to pursue her human trafficking murderer and punish him physically and mentally.
• Thou Shalt Not Kill:
  • Downplayed. While Lucifer doesn't seem to care when a victim is guilty of some sin or crime, he believes that anyone guilty of killing an innocent is to be punished. He makes this very clear to a Satantic Cult.
    Lucifer: "[shouting] STOP! Someone killed this girl! She didn't deserve that, that is not what I stand for! Is that what you all wanted, eh?! [brink of tears] You should be ashamed of yourselves..."
  • Played straight because of the fact that angels are not meant to kill mortals. Lucifer breaks this "rule" when he kills Cain at the end of Season 3, and shortly after his devil face is revealed again.
• Troll: For just one example: after stopping a jewelry store heist, while time is slowed Lucifer takes the handgun off a thief, strips him down to his underwear, and ties his shoelaces together. It says something about him that despite knowing about the impending end of The Multiverse, he still goes out of his way to mystically compel Mia to reveal her innermost desire, flirts with Diggle, and intentionally mispronounces Constantine's name, just for his own amusement.

U-Y

• Uncertain Doom: His dismissive comments on the Anti-Monitor's wiping of the Multiverse in Crisis on Infinite Earths (2019), the fact that he's still able to summon portals while John Constantine can't, his celestial nature and his behaviour being more in line with his pre-Character Development self might mean he's immune to the erasure of the Multiverse, but in the end, it's unknown if he was or not. Word of God confirms that this is set during the five years before Season 1, and given that it's confirmed that other universes were restored after Crisis it's likely that Lucifer and the rest of Earth-666 were restored as well.
• Unscrupulous Hero: Evolves into one. Lucifer, who was utterly self-serving in the beginning, has been behaving much more morally as of late, as Amenadiel and Maze note. He doesn't care about the victims, he uses extreme violence at the drop of a hat, even against possibly innocent suspects, he's rude and dismissive at best, but he's still willing to save innocents, and is utterly furious at the idea of criminals going unpunished.
• Villains Never Lie: Is Satan and an Unscrupulous Hero, but his word is binding and he never goes back on a deal even if he thinks the deal is a bad one.
• Waistcoat of Style: Frequently wears these, as befitting a Sharp-Dressed Man.
• Wardrobe Wound: He's immune to earthly weapons, but gets very peevish when they damage his designer wardrobe. Expect him to angrily inform his assailant of the upmarket brand they just ruined.
• Wedding Ring Defense: A rare male example. Lucifer used a fake marriage to a dancer in order to trick his mother into revealing her plans, though the plan was also to get Chloe to back down in pursuing him romantically.
• While Rome Burns: Seems to think the Crisis is similar enough to the prophesied Apocalypse of his world that he's resigned himself to its inevitability. His only reaction to the incoming antimatter wave is making plans to go out with an orgy.
• White Shirt of Death: He gets a variant in the Season 3 finale. After using his angel wings to shield himself and Chloe from gunfire, he puts a beatdown on Cain's men with his bloodstained wings extended.
• Will Not Tell a Lie: Lucifer never even once lies about who he is (it helps that nobody believes him) and routinely confronts criminals without a shred of deceit about it. The closest "The Prince of Lies" gets is the occasional evasiveness and a few technical truths. (Such as telling Chloe that the stolen container contained "Russian dolls", which it did. He just didn't bother mentioning it also contained a pair of severed angelic wings.) In comparison, both Chloe and Dan lie and hide things when they need to, and Amenadiel, an angel, has absolutely no compunctions about lying and manipulating others to get what he wants.
  • His strict adherence to being honest is well known to those around him. It's one of the ways people can tell that Michael, who is perfectly happy to lie, is impersonating him. In a truly heartbreaking moment Trixie demands that Lucifer be the one to tell her that Dan is really dead because she knows he never lies.
• Will They or Won't They?: With Chloe, for the first five seasons. The two of them have been aware they're in love with each other since Season 2, but outside of a few kisses, their relationship never really went anywhere. First, due to Lucifer deliberately sabotaging the relationship by getting hitched to an "exotic dancer" (really a conwoman) to trick his mother into revealing her plans (and because he was put off by The Reveal that Chloe had been literally made for him). Then because of the Love Triangle with Pierce. Then because of Chloe learning he was the Devil, combined with Lucifer getting back together with Eve. The last obstacle was Chloe finally learning about the circumstances of her birth — once they moved past that, they finally got together for real and consummated their relationship not long after.
• Yin-Yang Bomb: Grows into one by Season 5. He can manifest his devil face and his angel wings at will, and in succession too. Though it's yet to be seen if he can do so simultaneously.
• You Don't Look Like You: Compare the series Lucifer with the character from the comics who is a Magnificent Bastard who outsmarts and beats every foe he encounters, creates his own universe, defeats a personified force of entropy itself and helps another character to replace Yahweh himself after he abandons creation. He is also the personification of free will, a complete sociopath, and is not even remotely interested in treating any human as an equal or even being attracted to one of them. The Lucifer of this series is a playboy who likes to party, actually cares about people, and is intrigued by Chloe.
• Your Heart's Desire: Part of his powers as the Devil is he compel people to tell him "what they truly desire." He uses this on Mia in Crisis on Infinite Earths (2019) to reveal that her deepest desire is to see her father return to life. His powers don't work on someone who already has everything they want, as Lucifer realized when inquiring a witness.