Lucifer and his allies gear up for a potential war against Michael and his angelic allies in a contest to become God.
Tropes:
- Ambiguous Situation: With the revelation that souls in Hell are able to leave and go to Heaven, it's implied that Dan can as well, though the episode does not reveal his fate.
- Anguished Declaration of Love: After an entire season of not being able to say it, Lucifer finally replies Chloe's love confession, right after he sacrifices himself to save her.Lucifer: I choose you, because I love you.
- Awesome Moment of Crowning: When Lucifer becomes God, all angels, including Michael, as well as non-angels like Eve and Maze, kneel before him. The only exception, fittingly enough, is Chloe.
- Back from the Dead:
- After she is killed, Lucifer goes to Heaven to bring Chloe's soul back to Earth, thus reviving her.
- Lucifer himself is incinerated after Lilith's ring stops giving him protection in Heaven. However, he is revived just in time before an enraged Chloe can kill Michael, revealing that he has become a God.
- Badass Normal: Chloe and Eve, despite being mortal humans, participate in the angelic/demonic battle at the stadium. Both use guns with bullets made from Maze's melted demonic knives.
- Bilingual Bonus: Maze's Battle Cry is in Zulu (one of South Africa's major languages, which Lesley-Ann Brandt is fluent in despite being a native Afrikaans speaker), but the translation isn't exact. Rather than simply saying "fight", she says babulale bonke, which literally means "kill everyone".
- Break-Up/Make-Up Scenario: Maze reconciles with Eve, telling her that she is fine if she has to watch Eve grow old and die.
- The Bus Came Back:
- Azrael makes a return since the Season 3 episode "Boo Normal".
- John Decker, as played by Chris Payne Gilbert, also reappears since the Season 2 episode "My Little Monkey".
- Chekhov's Gun: Lilith's ring inadvertently enables Lucifer to bypass Heaven's wall, though it does not last long.
- Chekhov's Gunman: The prisoners who die trying to jailbreak in the beginning come back during the confrontation with Michael as the backups called in by Maze.
- Cruel Mercy: In the end, Lucifer spares Michael but cuts his wings.
- Despair Event Horizon: Lucifer crosses it quite clearly when he has to watch Chloe die. He immediately flies to Heaven to get her soul, not caring in the slightest that this means he will be incinerated by breaking the rule of never entering Heaven again. Fortunately, Lilith's ring saves him.
- Died in Your Arms Tonight: Chloe dies in Lucifer's arms.
- Earn Your Happy Ending: Lee Garner, AKA Mr. Said-Out-Bitch, has found a way to escape his Hell loop by coming to terms with his guilt, and is currently living in Heaven.
- Empowered Badass Normal: After she is resurrected, Chloe dons the hilt of the Flaming Sword, giving her superhuman strength comparable to angels, before proceeding to brutally beat Michael.
- Failed Attempt at Drama:
- Michael loudly declares himself God into the sky, expecting some kind of divine theatrics to accompany him. None of those happen.
- Lucifer exposing Michael's dirty work only causes two angels to switch to his side (and one quickly changes her mind). Lucifer lampshades this, thinking that there would be more than that.
- Five-Second Foreshadowing: Azrael shows up at the arena and tearfully apologizes to Lucifer seconds before Michael fatally stabs Chloe.
- Heaven: We see it for the first time, when Lucifer breaks in to take Chloe's soul back to Earth. When he meets her, she is chatting with her father, confirming Amenadiel's claim back in "Expire Erect".
- Heel–Face Turn: Despite being the last person in Lucifer's mind to switch sides, Zadkiel is the only angel aside from Amenadiel who supports him in the final confrontation, upon his realization that Lucifer is trying to become God out of love.
- Heroic Sacrifice: Lucifer sacrifices himself to take Chloe's soul back from Heaven to Earth. This earns him the promotion to become God.
- Hope Spot: When Azrael suddenly appears during the fight at the stadium, Lucifer is glad because he thinks she is on his side, given their former closeness. Only for her to reveal that she hasn't come to help him, she is about to reap Chloe, though clearly not by choice.
- I Call It "Vera": The Hell-forged dagger that Maze lends to Chloe for the fight is apparently called "Stabby".
- I Did What I Had to Do: How Michael justifies murdering Remiel to his siblings.
- Impaled with Extreme Prejudice: Chloe is stabbed by Michael using Zadkiel's Tree of Life staff.
- Killed Off for Real: Remiel is stabbed by Azrael's Blade. She survives long enough to reach the Lux penthouse, alerting Lucifer and Chloe to Michael's machinations.
- Kneel Before Frodo: After Lucifer proves himself to be the rightful heir to the throne of God, every angel present (even Michael, if grudgingly), along with Maze and Eve, bend the knee to him.
- Last-Second Word Swap: When he seemingly surrenders to Michael:Lucifer: You are God...awful.
- Manipulative Bastard: It turns out that Michael orchestrated Dan's death so Chloe can feel guilty about it, therefore damning her to Hell. Therefore Michael can use it as a bargaining chip for Lucifer to retake his throne in Hell, which will mean he can be with Chloe forever, even though she will be behind the bars.
- Metaphorical Marriage: Lucifer's Anguished Declaration of Love is accompanied by him presenting Chloe with Lilith's ring, while they are in a literal Heaven. It's a match made in Heaven, so to speak.
- Mistreatment-Induced Betrayal: Subverted. Despite Lucifer telling his angelic siblings that Michael has no problem executing fellow angels who oppose him, only two switch sides, and one quickly changes her mind upon learning just how outmatched Lucifer's side is.
- Punch Catch: Michael does this to Lucifer during their scuffle at the start of the episode.
- Roaring Rampage of Revenge: Upon resurrection, Chloe nearly kills Michael for what he did to herself and the man she loves.
- Sequel Hook: Dan is still in Hell, nobody except for Lucifer, Amenadiel, and Chloe know about it yet, and the three will no doubt attempt to rescue him now that Lucifer knows that damned souls can escape their Hell loop.
- Series Fauxnale: For most of production, this was intended to be the show's final episode. When Netflix was so impressed with their work that they got a whole other season, they simply chopped off a ten minute epilogue to instead spend that season on the full aftermath of Lucifer becoming God.
- Shout-Out:
- When mocking the armor that Michael is wearing at the climax, Lucifer sarcastically asks if winter is coming.
- Apparently Heaven uses the same Narrative Profanity Filter as the afterlife in The Good Place as Lee Garner tells Lucifer that he doesn't know "what the fork" Lucifer is talking about.
- Strike Me Down with All of Your Hatred!: When Chloe has the Blade on Michael's neck, Michael goads her to kill him. But Lucifer talks her down.
- Team Switzerland: Azrael remains neutral in the conflict between Lucifer and Michael. Her reaping Chloe isn't because she's sided with Michael, it's just her duty as Angel of Death and clearly not something she enjoys doing.
- This Means War!: Chloe's death is the impetus for Maze to rally her side to take on Michael's army, despite Amenadiel's attempt to calm her down.Maze: Babulale bonke! note
- Wham Episode: At the end of the episode, Lucifer becomes God.
