Webcomic / Omens

Omens is a fan-comic based on the popular manga Devilman made by Go Nagai. The artist Diabolical Jinx has been working on this comic for several years, and was proud to finally publish it in September, 2022. Her art can be found on Deviantart, Tumblr and Twitter.

The story draws heavy inspiration from the Devilman mythology, but has its own healthy dose of personal inspiration. Diabolical Jinx has been a long time fan of League of Legends, so if you spot any resemblance don't be surprised. Reading the source material will help you appreciate the references, but the story is self-contained enough that you won’t need to read the Devilman manga to follow what’s going on.

The story depicts the prehistoric era of the Devilman mythology, following the perspective of Lucifer and his fall from grace. The early portion of the story focuses on Lucifer’s mischievous deeds in heaven, which causes God to sour on the wayward angel. Lucifer is exiled from Paradise after running afoul of God's grace. Lucifer soon finds himself on a primordial Earth, consumed by scary monsters known as demons. Lucifer encounters an injured demon who wants to eat him, and after convincing the demon not to he learns his name is Amon. Amon tells Lucifer that Demon Lord Xenon has perverted the ancient rules and rituals demons lived by, and gets Lucifer to agree to an alliance to defeat the evil overlord.

Spoiler policy: This article will assume you've read the Devilman manga stories, or watched the associated anime content, so spoilers connected to those bits of lore will go uncensored. Anything related to upcoming events in the comic that have yet to be shown will be censored.

Content warning: The story has scenes of gore, sexual activity, and drug use. Read at your own discretion.

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Devilman Omens provides examples of:

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• Adaptational Abomination:
• Adaptational Angst Upgrade:
  • In Devilman we're not given a specific rundown of what motivated Lucifer to rebel, or what his life was like trying to make sense of his loneliness and disillusionment from God's design. Nor is any time dedicated to Lucifer seeking out companionship with the demons — Satan merely explains to Akira in broad strokes that he came to admire the demons, and was disgusted by God wanting to kill them. The comic more explicitly shows what Lucifer's social and professional life was like in heaven prior to his fall, and some of the ideological struggles that led him down a bad path. The comic also (eventually) shows the bond Satan formed with the demons in a far more personal light, giving more emotional punch to Satan's confession directed at Akira.
  • In Devilman we're not given any specific insight as to Michael and Lucifer having been close siblings. Satan describes them as the Right and Left Hands of God, implying they both had very important jobs in heaven back in the olden days, but this doesn't necessarily imply anything beyond professionalism between the two twins. Michael for his part speaks of his past rivalry with Satan (the two of them fought twice in the Bible) in matter of fact terminology, and shows no hesitation or remorse over the idea of having a rematch with his twin brother. The comic shows the two twins as having been inseparable siblings, who did everything together and clearly loved each other dearly. The comic shows that even if Lucifer had red flags prior to his fall, Michael was one of the few people the wayward angel cared about and felt regret over hurting. Michael for his part shows severe sadness over the loss of his twin, and does not immediately get over it. If the comic keeps in tone with the canon Michael, perhaps the cold reaction to seeing his brother again after so many eons is meant to suggest that Michael is more professional now, and is tired of making excuses for Lucifer's bad behavior.
  • In Devilman Amon and Satan's relationship in the prehistoric era is kept vague, just with a general idea that the two of them had a brief alliance but eventually had a falling out. While Amon didn't like Satan prior to the events of the modern era, it was only Amon's forced fusion with Akira that cemented a terrible grudge against the fallen angel, and which caused Amon to wish death upon Satan. The comic shows that their alliance was built on a rough foundation to begin with (with Amon trying to eat Lucifer), and adds extra context as to why they had a falling out. The Amon manga so far is the only story in the franchise that has addressed Amon's ideological convictions for disliking Satan, which is otherwise silent on the specifics. ^note  Amon is characterized as a drifter who dislikes tribal politics and has no desire to be bothered by the ambitions of local clan leaders. Amon wishes to be left alone, and keeps to himself most of the time. Amon finds Satan's delusions of grandeur to be disgusting, and accuses the fallen angel of being outsider who is using demon blood and labor for his own ambition. Amon doesn't like God either, but he accuses Satan of being cut from the same cloth, that just like God he will be a moral busy body who thinks he has the right to rule over others — demons should be fiercely independent, and make their own rules. Bizarrely, Amon elsewhere in the franchise cares a great deal about tribal politics, and wishes the demon clans would work in harmony.
  • God is a silent character in the source material. Characters — both for and against him — make moral judgements about him, and speculate on what his motives and plans are, but God himself gives us no insight as to what he's thinking about. This especially goes for the prehistoric era, where we're given no clear insight as to what caused God and Lucifer to have a falling out, beyond in-universe speculation. In the comic God has a special relationship with Lucifer, who he dotes on and treats as his favorite son. Whereas the manga has Satan comment on God as a cold and merciless being (some bias is to be expected), the comic shows that God cares deeply about the fates of his creations, and sometimes has to punish some of the trouble makers in order to keep the peace with the remaining flock. There is even a bit of notable somberness where you can tell that punishing Lucifer (and even Samael to an extent) was emotionally taxing for God, and it was not something he enjoyed doing.
• Adaptational Badass: In the source material Satan claims that he actually fought God and put up a meaningful challenge. The original manga even has Satan claim that he drove God away from the Earth. This is a mixed example however, because Satan elsewhere in the franchise has characters remark on how the prehistoric war was a resounding loss for the demons and God was triumphant. However, the story does still seem to imply that God had a tangible combat form of some kind that could be understood and challenged. The comic does away with the implication that God can be challenged, and when he does "fight" Lucifer the fight is over in seconds and it's not even a struggle for the deity. Lucifer made the mistake of pissing off a deity, and paid the price for it — an angel, even a super angel is still merely an angel, whereas God is... well God.
• Adaptational Comic Relief:
  • In the source material Satan is anything but silly. In the comic Lucifer is a prankster by heart, who loves to mess with people and torment them with arguments about petty stuff. Lucifer has a lot of over the top, quirky expressions that really help to emphasize what a petty bully and absolute dork he is. If you weren't reminded constantly that this is Lucifer — the most famous fallen angel — it would be easy to forget that this dork is meant to become the personification of evil some day.
  • Michael was a cold professional in the manga, but here he's a cutesy sidekick to Lucifer's antics (though he does discourage his brother's worst excesses). Michael also has a lot of adorable expressions that are quite comical to look at, and will likely make you feel fluffy feelings towards the angel. Michael is such a lovable dork, that it's often easy to forget that he's meant to become the commander of the angelic host some day, and a badass capable of defeating Lucifer — the pinnacle of God's angels. Every badass had their cutesy phase at one point.
• Adaptational Jerkass:
  • In the source material Satan is supernaturally calm and soft spoken. Satan is obviously not a nice person, and speaks about disturbing concepts like genocide with an eerie calm, as if he was discussing the weather or taking out the trash. But just because he's a bad guy, doesn't mean he raises his voice, and if he thinks you're worthy of his time he will explain himself even if he knows you disagree with him. In the comic Lucifer is a spoiled brat through and through, and is easily angered, often throwing out colorful insults. Lucifer does not take criticism or differing opinions with any grace, and loves to make an ass out of himself. Lucifer is prone to staging pranks, and is all too happy to laugh at people's misfortune. Not helping matters is that Lucifer is guilty of making very over the top, exaggerated, even comical expressions, showing off what a petty bully and dork he is. The mental image that the evil overlord of the demons used to be a spoiled teenager who mouthed off at dad and was kicked out of the house for it, is quite frankly absurd and hilarious.
  • Xenon was not a nice guy in the source material (you know genocidal demon overlord, and all that) but at least he was considerate towards his demon subordinates. Xenon would sit down with his demons and ask them if they were fit to handle the current task (such as fighting Devilman), and would give them an out if they weren't ready for it. Here Xenon treats his subordinates like cannon fodder, and could not give two shits about whether or not they survive.
• Adaptational Job Change:
  • Downplayed example with Lucifer, because he still wields a great deal of authority in heaven but it's less power than he had in the source material. In the Bible (and folk lore), Lucifer was no less than a king, and he wielded grand celestial power not just on Earth but in spiritual realms unknown to man's senses. Lucifer was trusted with this power because he was the most beautiful and powerful of God's creations. God made it a point when Lucifer was cast down that the citizens of his kingdom(s) bore witness to his downfall, so they could see him grovel in disgrace. Lucifer's mistake was getting so caught up in his own glory, that he felt he deserved a shot at the highest throne of all — God's authority — and was not content with enjoying the power he already had.
  • The Devilman continuity does explain that Lucifer and Michael are the Right and Left Hands of God, implying that their authority was something special, but nothing incredibly specific is pointed out beyond this. The comic does allude to the idea that Lucifer and Michael were tasked with watching after the angelic host when God was absent, but Lucifer in the present story is depicted as a delinquent that wouldn't know responsibility if it smacked him in the ass. One can assume that this Lucifer wouldn't know what to do with the authority of being a king given his misbehavior, and that's why God never granted him such a position. There is also the fact that exposing Lucifer to kingdoms outside of heaven (such as Earth), would expose Lucifer to dangers God thinks they're not prepared for.
  • Xenon's backstory is ambiguous, and what he was like prior to meeting Satan is never established in the lore. One can assume he was probably a high level demon that received some respect, but whether he was a king of all demons prior to Satan arriving on the scene is unclear. In the comic's story Xenon is the Overlord of all Demons, but as demons like Amon can attest that title is not undisputed.
  • Psycho Jenny is a powerful psychic demon who is effectively Satan's hatchet man, using her intense powers to overwhelm enemies. She's seen breaking up fights between major characters on numerous occasions, and even acting as something of a messenger on Satan's behalf. In the comic's lore Psycho Jenny is a psychic who uses her powers to learn valuable knowledge that her master Xenon needs for safe keeping. An Oracle's meditation allows them to learn esoteric/mysterious knowledge from the ether of the universe, and this can be incredibly useful for demon lords and the security of a demon tribe.
• Adaptational Intelligence: Satan in the source material was incredibly knowledgeable on the inner workings of the setting of Devilman, and was well versed on subjects such as demons. As far as the manga was concerned, demons were something Satan knew about before meeting them, and adapted quickly to the monsters upon meeting them on Earth. In the comic continuity Lucifer is ignorant about what the demons are, and takes a considerable amount of time adapting to how the demons work once he meets them.
• Adaptational Nice Guy:
  • Michael in the manga had an eerie coldness about him that wasn't far off from Lucifer. The difference between the twins being that Michael was a good guy working for God, with the mission of supporting the humans against the demons. In the comic Michael is far more emotional and expressive, and is an incredibly friendly and considerate person. It would be fair to say that Michael is the kind of emotionally stable person that Akira would have made good friends with, and even learning he's an angel would not provide any hassles to their friendship because Michael is such a stand up guy — whereas Lucifer has a host of psychological issues, even before you touch on the villainy stuff.
• Adaptation Personality Change:
  • In the source material Satan is a deadly serious character. Satan is depicted as a fiercely professional villain who acts with calm, cold precision and is very guarded with his emotions. Satan was capable of the occasional bout of emotion, typically when discussing distressing topics, but was overall an incredibly composed individual; with it often being difficult to get an accurate read on his thoughts. Satan rarely shouted, even in the midst of duels to the death with powerful foes like Amon, showing an otherworldly, inhuman calm towards the stress of combat. In the comic Lucifer is anything BUT calm and professional. Lucifer pranks people, laughs at the the misfortune of others, and is so self-absorbed and arrogant that he dislikes being around others and refuses to listen to their advice. This is to say nothing of the exaggerated, haughty expressions that Lucifer routinely shows to other people, and the crude loud mouthed insults he hurls at other people. Given the wide divide between the two interpretations of the character, one can probably assume that eons of painful experiences (and learning to cope with them) gave rise to Satan putting on a mask of composure and professionalism to make sense of the world around him.
  • In the source material Michael is seen as coldly professional towards the Human Alliance. He's not mean spirited to them, but he's not exactly the most charming leader, speaking very bluntly and matter of fact towards them. If Michael wasn't on the side of God, working for the benefit of humanity, his eerie calmness might remind you of Lucifer. In the comic Michael is a much more friendly, outgoing, and optimistic person. Michael is also very curious and gets excited easily over the prospect of positive news, even if the positive side is only speculative (the idea of humans turning into something interesting). Michael also comes off as the kind of lovable sidekick who would stick together with you through thick or thin, and would give you a second chance and worry about you if you went down a bad path. In canon Michael has no such sentimentality towards Lucifer, and is ready to kill his fallen brother with no hesitation.
• Adaptational Villainy: Xenon was not a nice guy in the source material, but he did something uniquely bad in the comic continuity. In the ancient past there were demons of grand size who ruled over the Earth. The giants mostly kept to themselves, but did lay down a basic set of rules for demons to follow so that this would encourage less violence. Xenon formed an army to overthrow the giants and establish himself as Demon Overlord. This is not what set him apart as evil, it was the fact that Xenon purged his army so that anyone who remembered the giants and their old traditions would no longer be able to oppose his rule. In the source material Xenon hated the senseless slaughter of valuable demons, and even criticized Satan's love for Akira as a detriment to their plans since Akira killed a lot of high value demons. Xenon also encouraged demons to get stronger, viewing it as better for the collective good of demon kind.
• Adaptational Wimp:
  • The author felt that canon Lucifer was too powerful to depict unchanged in the context of her story. Short of God being a constant threat, she couldn't envision anyone strong enough to give Lucifer trouble if he was depicted to be at his max potential from the other stories. The author has hinted she's okay with Lucifer perhaps becoming stronger as the story progresses, but argues that there would be no dramatic tension if he had all the powers the canon Satan had.
• Affectionate Nickname: Several nicknames are present. Lucifer is called Lucy a few times. Lucifer as per Biblical tradition is called Morning Star by God. Lucifer calls Michael Mikey to tease him. God calls Lucifer and Michael collectively as his Twin Stars, and calls Lucifer star shine and starlight, much like how a doting parent might call their child sunshine.
• The Ageless: All angels and demons fall under this umbrella. Making things a little more fast and loose with demons, is that they can transfer their souls into other bodies, so even if age was a factor they would be able to reset the clock by living in a new body.
• Alertness Blink:
• Alien Blood: The demons have yellow blood. In Greek and Egyptian mythology, the gods had golden blood, so it's fascinating to ponder if demons inspired the mythology that humans would later write about. In a more amusing example, Lucifer wants to prove to Michael that his blood is blue, but is disappointed to learn that it's red. In a fun perspective flip, Amon is surprised to discover that the red fluid coming from Lucifer's wound does indeed smell like blood despite its strange color — so from Amon's perspective red blood is the alien blood
• Alien Geometries: Heaven is depicted as a bizarre, shapeshifting location where walls and structures can move around, and warp shape and dimension randomly — an echo of God's nature. When Lucifer strikes at the entrance to God's throne, the wall obeying God's wish to be left alone, shifts a glass panel from a different location and then that panel sucks Lucifer in to the other side where the panel itself is located. Given God's otherworldly power, this kind of bizarre behavior is to be expected.
• Alien Sky:
  • The artist is fond of drawing exquisite backgrounds that would not be typical on Earth. The first 3 chapters take place in heaven, so the bizarre dimensional distortions and colorful lights make sense. In some parts, attention is paid to beautiful celestial bodies found inside outer space itself, but are no less captivating to look at.
  • In one animation Satan and Akira's bickering is interrupted by a flash flood, and the two of them are attacked by a sea monster made out of glowing light. In the background a barren planet can be seen on the horizon, heavily implying that this isn't Earth but an alien world that Akira and Satan ventured to, and the planet just so happens to be in close orbit with another one. ^Read From a physics perspective two planets being close to each other would affect the tide in overwhelming ways, so a flash flood isn't totally unreasonable. Unless of course the light monster caused the flood.
• All Planets Are Earth-Like: Notably averted. Lucifer travels to numerous star systems in search of a planet matching this criteria (because Lucifer is used to the comfort of heaven and Eden), and finds nothing but dead ends. In an unfortunate touch of realism, Lucifer learns the hard way that planets capable of sustaining life are rare in the universe. Lucifer even notes with some sense of dread that space is far more empty than he anticipated.^note  The consensus among scientists is that there's probably quintillions (that's 18 zeroes) of planets in the universe, with only a small fraction of those categorized as Earth-like, or capable of sustaining organic life. The space between solar systems is insane, let alone the astronomical distance between galaxies. Finding a planet is like finding a needle in a hay stack, but finding a planet that can sustain life is like finding a needle in a stack of needles.
• Alternate Universe: The artist was inspired to set this story in the prehistoric era because of how little of that time period is explored in canon. However, she has emphasized that she doesn't intend this story to be too tightly screwed to the canon of Devilman, and that she wants to take whatever liberties suit her story.
• Always Chaotic Evil: How demons are depicted, much like the manga. Lucifer confronts God about this, pointing out that if God values an orderly universe how did he allow such horrible creatures to exist. God responds that the angels were never meant to interact with such creatures, but this doesn’t bring Lucifer any peace of mind.
• Always Lawful Good: How the angels are depicted. While Samael and Lucifer are obvious problem children, the vast majority of angels are shown to be decent people who want to serve God, and seek after his vision of cosmic order.
• Ambiguous Time Period: The manga has provided translations as to when the prehistoric demon war took place, but even then it has varied between adaptions. The author has chosen to keep the time period of Lucifer's backstory ambiguous, because she thinks it's more interesting for the audience to fill in the gap themselves for how much time has passed. The same ambiguity is also supposed to apply for any of Lucifer's backstory events, because the author wanted the audience to decide for themselves how old Lucifer is meant to be.
• An Arm and a Leg: After Lucifer escapes the cave Amon continues his pursuit of the angel through the thick jungle foliage. Lucifer narrowly missed Amon's head with his lightning beams in the cave, and out in the jungle Lucifer narrowly misses hitting the elusive demon in the chest. The third time Lucifer uses the lightning, it hits its mark and slices off Amon's front left leg. Amon does not let this injury deter him, and he continues his pursuit of Lucifer. Thankfully for Amon, regeneration of lost limbs is possible for demons.
• And Now for Someone Completely Different: Even though Lucifer is by and large the view point character, the comic does shift view points at a few points. The earliest notable example is when it shifts to Amon's perspective in chapter 4.
• Angelic Abomination: Present. Some of the angels are decidedly not humanoid in design and are unsettling to look at. The most extreme example are perhaps the combat angels, who look more like androids than they do organic life.
• Angelic Beauty: The angels are beautiful people by conventional human standards, but their elegance is enhanced when you factor in the majesty of their wings. Any concepts of beauty = goodness applies to the general flock, but not so much to Lucifer.
• Anthropic Principle:
  • God's omnipotence is nerfed slightly in order to preserve some small measure of drama. If God had complete omnipotence, then the issue of God being a neglectful father to the angels would be a moot point. God could be reading at a library 1000 galaxies away, and be having a conversation with Lucifer at the same time if his perception was limitless. God is still immensely powerful by any practical measuring system, and most outside observers would not see a meaningful difference between omnipotent vs 10,000 times more powerful than Lucifer. The author has addressed this and said that God could have a "limitless perception" power if he went out of his way to activate it, but otherwise God is just a hyper-intelligent being with strong senses as his base-line, so he doesn't prefer to have "omnipotence mode" activated all the time.
  • Applies to Lucifer to a lesser extent. Lucifer's power has varied across the franchise, but at his peak Lucifer is a uniquely powerful, cosmic danger. Lucifer can, among other things: warp time, create black holes, and even change reality to suit his whims. Even at his weakest depictions, Lucifer can casually destroy the Earth in minutes with zero effort. The canon Lucifer would not be challenged significantly by the prehistoric demons if his power remained the same.
• Archangel Gabriel: In the Bible (and folklore) he is the messenger angel, ^note  being a messenger was a fairly generic job for angels as a whole, but Gabriel has been roped in by pop culture to be the most important of the messengers. Keep in mind the majority of the angels in the Bible lack names, so Gabriel having a name likely set him apart. and according to prophecy is one of the angels tasked with beginning the apocalypse: as soon as Gabriel sounds his trumpet, the angels know that the carnage can begin. In the comic he's depicted as a more light hearted counterpart to Lucifer, someone who is capable of sass and rudeness, but otherwise keeps to himself and does his job. Gabriel is also depicted as one of Michael's friends in the comic.
• Archangel Michael: In the Bible Michael is depicted as a guardian of God's chosen people, and a powerful warrior who defeated Satan in a cataclysmic war in heaven. Due to being one of the few named angels, as well as one of two characters that has ever canonically fought Satan (the other being God), Michael has become something of a pop culture fan favorite — typically depicted as a macho man in ornate armor, wielding a flaming sword. In the comic Michael is depicted as a friendly angel who is constantly worrying about Lucifer's antics and how to reconcile the differences his brother has with other people. If we look to Devilman canon, Michael does make reference to his past duel with his brother Satan, and he considers them equals effectively. The comic aims to bridge the gap between Michael's current soft persona, and the hardened warrior who will become Satan's most famous nemesis.
• Archangel Raphael: A character from Bible folk lore. ^note A lot of famous characters from Christian tradition are technically not even canon, because they were written about in books the Church deemed non-canon, and are otherwise not found in the mainstream Bible. In other cases, canon characters get expanded upon in folk lore. In the tradition Raphael was responsible for guiding Moses and his tribe through the desert when they left Egypt, and provided for their physical well being (even conjuring up food and water for them). Raphael is associated with water, and it's said people who bathe in water blessed by Raphael are healed. In the comic, Raphael is shown as one of Michael's friends, and is seen comforting Michael as he mourns the loss of Lucifer.
• Archangel Uriel: A character from Bible folk lore. In the tradition Uriel is one of the guardians of heaven, making sure that paradise is not bothered by intruders, and he is a justice minded warrior who punishes the wicked. His most famous story comes from Enoch, where he was paramount in waging war against the fallen angels that had turned Earth into a wicked hive of villainy. In the comic he's depicted as a rather quiet angel, and is some kind of lion harpy hybrid with a face fairly similar to God's appearance. Along with the other archangels, he likewise is counted among Michael's group of friends.
• Art Evolution: The art in the first 2 chapters is good, but the character models and backgrounds start to get more detailed starting with chapter 3. The author has stated chapter 5 is where she feels the art process has been streamlined to an ideal balance.
• Ascended Extra:
  • Michael. In the Lady manga, the angel plays a background role, observing the plot from a distance. Michael only makes a significant appearance in the finale of Lady. Even in the meta sense, Michael barely shows up in the Bible, and he only fights Satan twice in the entire story of the Bible. The author wanted to place more emphasis on the sibling rivalry aspect of Michael and Lucifer's relationship.
  • Amon. In 50 years of canon, Amon has only had a few appearances, so it has been difficult to ascertain the nature of his personality or how he relates to other characters. Even the loving relationship that exists between Amon and Sirene has only ever been seen from Sirene's perspective, with Amon never once commenting on it. The author wanted to give more insight as to what kind of person Amon was before his glory days as the champion of all demons, and depict the canon animosity between Amon and Satan in her own unique way.
• Beauty Is Never Tarnished: Zigzagged example. Lucifer still maintains most of his attractiveness even after the punishment he receives from God and Amon (in separate encounters mind you), but the fights he has with both characters leaves blood stains and bruises on his face, arms and torso. Lucifer's first fight with Amon results in the angel having one of his wings torn off by the demon, making this a more extreme injury compared to the bruises and lacerations. Thankfully Lucifer is able to regenerate his injuries, including loss of limbs and wings given the time to use his energy reserve — so even if Lucifer was ever disfigured, he would be able to reverse the damage.
• Bee Afraid: When Lucifer runs away from Amon, a giant bee the size of a football can be spotted resting on top of a tree. While the bee does not attack Lucifer, and only flutters its wings in response to the angel's presence, one would imagine a sting from a bee like this would floor a human with its venom.
• Big Red Devil:
  • Amon and Xenon match the stereotype of the red and black demon with sharp teeth and scary horns. All demons would understandably count as evil by human standards, but the difference between Xenon and Amon is the former is driven by ambition to rule over everyone, and the latter is a selfish jerk who takes what he wants by force.
  • The idea of Satan matching these characteristics is parodied in one fan letter, where Satan is asked why humans view him this way if the Bible never describes Satan as a demon. Satan has a look of confusion, as if to say "I don't know why you're asking me how you silly humans came up with misguided folk lore... go ask your scholars, I'm the wrong person to ask."
• Bishōnen Line:
  • In canon the trend tends to be that the more powerful a demon is, the more their body leans towards a human shape, and proportionately they become more attractive (with some hint of beastly nature though). Though many of these same demons are able to go back and forth between their powerful beast form, and their more basic humanoid shape. The OVA Amon had a certain furry elegance to his muscular shape, but other adaptions have shown a monstrous form with black boney scales and twisted reptilian features, so the trend towards a human shape can only go so far — they are still demons after all.
  • In the web-comic Amon goes through this process. He starts out as a feral looking cat demon, and by eating Lucifer's wing he evolves into a werewolf monster with bipedal hind-legs and arms allowing him to transition from human walking to animal running any time he pleases. Eventually he will evolve into the OVA Amon form — a furry humanoid with thick muscles — but as of yet how he achieves this form has not been revealed.
• Blade Below the Shoulder: In the comic Lucifer is able to harden the wings on his arm into metallic feathers that can slice through even hardened stone walls. While Lucifer never demonstrates this ability in canon, it does resemble the arm blade that Akira, Amon and Jun ^Read Ironically Jun is a version of Satan that lives in a different time loop were able to wield in combat; effectively making it an angelic counterpart to that technique. It's unclear if only Lucifer knows how to use this ability, but presumably other angels might be able to do the same.
• Blasphemous Boast: When Michael points out that Lucifer needs to stop testing God's patience, the angel flippantly replies that if God is omnipotent then he can handle whatever he dishes out. The Bible explicitly says to not make a mockery of God or to tempt him.
• Broad Strokes: The author has admitted she plans to take creative liberties with her comic, and will draw some inspiration from the canon Devilman, but otherwise the comic functions based on her own separate lore. The author has also stated that when it comes to her stand alone drawings, the audience can choose to interpret them as part of the comic's lore if they want, but there won't be significant overlap.
• Buxom Beauty Standard:
• Cannibalism Super Power: In the web-comic demons are able to regenerate wounds and get a power boost from eating other living things. This is also true in canon, but the preferred method shown in canon is fusing together with someone else's biomass in a flash of light. While both achieve the same result, perhaps Nagai enjoyed how flashy the latter version looked over the former.
• Cardiovascular Love: In some of the drawings and animations, Satan's flirting with Akira is characterized with a lot of exaggerated heart symbols floating around in the air surrounding them. For good measure the angel even forms the shape of a heart with his hands to emphasize his affection for the young devil, but Akira is less than enthusiastic about this.
• Cast from Stamina:
  • Any magic ability used by demons or angels draws from an their spirit energy, and the more of their magic they use the more tired they become. Worse yet if they receive an injury, then their magic reserve is redirected towards stabilizing their wound making their magic less powerful over time. In critical situations magic can malfunction if the spirit energy is too low. Lucifer learns all of this the hard way during his fight with Amon.
  • This seems to apply to Lucifer's flying as well. In many instances (but not all) Lucifer is seen unleashing a strong burst of electric energy as his way of attaining lift off, and then using his wings once already in the air. While Lucifer could in theory fly by flapping his wings, it stands to reason that the magic from Lucifer's body allows him to propel himself through the air faster, and the wings therefore have less work to do and are more of a gliding/stability aid for his flight. The magic explanation is also necessary when factoring in flight through space, because flapping wings would not propel him through the void because there's no air resistance, so Lucifer's magic would have to be what causes him to move forward.
  • Amon tries flying at Psycho Jenny, but she teleports out of the way causing him to slip off the cliff face. When he falls down towards Xenon he tries to redirect his flight path at the last second, but is hit by Lucifer falling from space. If flying was an option, Amon would not waste time trying to eat the unconscious Lucifer so the impact clearly hurt him a great deal. During the chase with Lucifer both of them only fly short distances once out of the cave, and are bound to the ground for the rest of the encounter. Though it doesn't help that Lucifer slicing off his left leg (which is connected to the wing through a membrane) would have impacted his flight stability.
• Cats Are Mean:
  • In canon the prehistoric Amon was already shown capable of transforming into a monster similar to the Devilman transformation that Akira had. Deviating from that the web-comic makes Amon into a primitive cat demon. Amon is a ferocious killer who growls at his foes, insults them, and shows no mercy. Similar to how cats torture small animals before they eat them, Amon takes a little too much glee in his chase of Lucifer. This is to say nothing of how often he has grumpy expressions that are all too common on cats.
  • Something worth noting however is that because demons change shape by assimilating body parts from other creatures (not always demons), this doesn't necessarily mean that Amon started out as a cat demon. He might have been a weaker demon at one point, with the cat form being the strongest available body he could adopt at the time. If nothing else Amon won't be a cat demon forever, as he is set to evolve into the OVA form as his final upgrade.
  • Of the demons that Xenon sends after Amon, the one that puts up the biggest fight is the cat demon (this isn't saying much). The cat turns into a twisted abomination, with a parasite popping out of the cat's mouth as the neck is broken and twisted upside down. This might suggest that the parasite demon is the "real form" of the demon, and the cat is just a skin suit that it upgraded into.
• Celestial Paragons and Archangels: God is shown to put some credence in the opinion of angels, and he has personal talks with them from time to time to get their perspective on the ways of the world. He even calls the angels to assembly on occasion (though the angels note he hasn't done this in a long time), to get their opinion on his projects. After Lucifer is exiled God holds a council meeting with what he considers the top angels in the ranks, and the usual suspects like Michael and Raphael are present.
• Censor Box:
  • Back when Tumblr had an orneous censorship policy on nudity ^Read Tumblr's new policy is that explicit sex is not allowed, and nudity is allowed so long as it's not considered gratuitous. Canon Devilman would give Tumblr a heart attack if they could see it. Jinx had to put tape over Satan's nipples to get around it. Jinx has admitted that she chose to draw Satan with crotch fur to achieve a more neutral tone of sexuality, because Satan's penis and vagina being out in the open might casue issues down the line — better safe than sorry. ^Read In Devilman canon crotch fur has been applied to Sirene and Satan to achieve a similar result. Even though it might be a bit of an oxymoron that Satan's genitals might offend someone, but graphic scenes of violence are rendered in full view.
  • One drawing has a fan complain about not being able to see Satan's naked breasts. Satan is seen below wearing a blue robe, akin to the kind of robes Catholic monks wear, with the label "Cloak of Censure" marked on it. Frustrated by his circumstances, Satan gestures his hand to the sky saying "See? God hates me!" Hilarious as it might be to think that God would make Satan dress more conservatively to punish the misguided angel, the Bible never claims nudity itself is bad — merely that sexual intercourse used improperly is a problem. At the very least it might be more fair to say if God does hate Satan it's for reasons other than his nudity.
• Chained Heat:
  • In one drawing Satan and Akira are trapped in the same shirt, and the purpose is made clear when you read the text written on the shirt "This is our get along shirt." Given that both of them have considerable power it stands to reason that only God would have had the power necessary to force them into this punishment. Given how a lot of the artist's drawings are dedicated to Lucifer and Akira bickering, and sometimes getting into full blown fights over their egos, it stands to reason that God grew sick and tired of their fighting and arranged this so they could finally get along. One ponders which idea is funnier: Did God snap his fingers and the shirt appeared, or did he pin both of them down and shove it over their heads?
  • In one drawing Satan and Akira are trapped together in a cube, that appears to be suspended in a void of cyber space. Akira's legs are suspended over Satan's shoulders, whereas Satan's right leg is suspended on Akira's shoulder. Given Satan's smug attitude it would appear that he has trapped Akira in a pocket dimension so the devilman can't escape his flirting. ^read In Amon: The Darkside of Devilman Satan is shown to have the power to open portals into other dimensions, which he uses to give himself privacy when he has trouble processing his grief over Akira (who hasn't died mind you, but has been consumed by Amon's influence). It vaguely calls to mind Pepe Le Pew energy where the flirtful skunk would often corner his love interest and lock her away with him.
• Cherubic Choir: Michael makes reference to enjoying the act of singing with the other angels, but notes with some dread that Lucifer's antics have caused the angels to distance themselves from Michael. Lucifer claims that choir singing is boring, which causes Michael to note that they can't all be like Lucifer and master things instantly. In the Bible angels were prone to singing shouts of praise to God, and the human observers listed the voices as being endless — implying that this is a practice all angels engage in. The fact that Lucifer has given up on even this basic devotion to God, subtly implies that even then Lucifer's opinion of God was beginning to sour.
• Complete Immortality: God is the only being in the story with complete immunity to death, whether caused by age or injury. The angels like to boast about their immortality, but there is a quiet fear on that subject where they know God has the capacity to obliterate them at any time if he so chose. Stronger angels are capable of killing weaker angels, something that Lucifer demonstrates when he kills the combat angels that God summoned to fight him. Lucifer surviving the act of God banishing him (which caused a giant explosion of light), had nothing to do with him being invulnerable, but rather his father wanting to teach him a lesson by letting him live in exile.
• Confused Question Mark:
• Conscience Makes You Go Back: In one animation Satan and Akira's bickering contest (with Satan having an admittedly cute frown) is interrupted by an enormous flash flood, that submerges both of them under an entire ocean. Boulders swept in by the flood sink above them, and Akira in a moment of pettiness shoves Satan in the path of this boulder. Satan not needing oxygen is not seriously deterred (beyond hurt feelings, which his face depicts), but Akira starts to drown. Thankfully for Akira Satan uses his flight magic to propel himself up to the surface, catching Akira on his way up. From below a light monster attacks Satan with a giant beam of light, and Akira just flies away. Akira's expression hardens in annoyance, and he flies back to go help Satan. It's up to interpretation if Akira doesn't want to appear ungrateful for the angel saving his life, or he has some sentimental affection for the angel he would rather not talk about.
• Cool Chair: True to the Bible lore, God has a giant throne that he sits on. The throne room is depicted as being part of a shapeshifting labyrinth that changes its dimension at random, and seems like a gateway/world between worlds. Similar to the Bible's lore, the throne is used as a place of judgement, since God uses the throne as a venue to deliver Samael's punishment for leading Lucifer astray.
• Cosmic Horror Story: Comes with the territory of being a fan adaption of Devilman.
• Composite Character: Lucifer and Satan being the same character has been the subject of some debate among theologians, but the general consensus is that they are meant to be the same character. Major evidence that points to their connection include: Both characters hosted a rebellion against God and were cast down from heaven, ^Read Jesus claims that he saw Satan fall from heaven like lightning, implying that Jesus/God personally delivered the blow that exiled Satan from heaven. Likewise Lucifer's downfall is caused by God specifically in the Bible, and God himself gives a speech on how Lucifer was a glorious being whose heart was corrupted, and how he will be removed from God's holy mountain. both characters are considered the king of the Earth (Satan is called the god of this world in the Bible), and both are angels — so it's easy to put two and two together and say since they have so much in common, it's probably the same character going by two different names. One should keep in mind that Satan is not even the Devil's real name, but a title he was given by God that means "adversary", so Lucifer being his original name which later got discarded in lieu of Satan is not a giant stretch. It honestly comes down to personal preference if one wants to assume Lucifer and Satan are separate characters, but for the purposes of Nagai's work and the comic's continuity they are the same character.
• Convection, Schmonvection: Zigzagged. When Amon narrowly dodges Lucifer's lightning beams, they wiz past his head but the super heated air causes a scorch mark to form on the demon's face. Later when Amon is chasing Lucifer in the jungle, a separate lightning beam slices off his front left leg. This a charitable interpretation of what would happen to a body if hit by lightning. The leg taking the full brunt of the blast would explode, but the resulting electric pulse would spread through Amon's body cooking his organs, boiling his blood and making it explode, and there's a high likelihood his body would catch on fire. However we can chalk up Amon not becoming a Kentucky Fried Cat to a magic resistance of some kind.
• Clip Its Wings:
  • Despite his best efforts, Lucifer is unable to defeat Amon in a fight (justified due to his prior exhaustion from being defeated by God and being lost in space), nor is he able to run away from the persistent demon. As a result of this, Lucifer is pinned down by Amon and has one of his wings ripped off by the demon's teeth, causing a huge gush of blood to spill out from the severed wing. Notably, prior to his fight with Lucifer, Amon ran for miles with his teeth gripping very hard onto Lucifer's wings, with no concern over the angel's body smacking into the rough terrain. At no point during this run do any of Lucifer's wings break, bleed, or rip apart, suggesting that Lucifer's spirit energy does give his wings a certain resistance to damage.
  • One drawing shows Amon ripping off all of Satan's wings with his bare hands, smiling sadistically at the angel's pain as the latter weeps in agony. The author's commentary jokes "I hope you can regrow your wings faster than you can destroy the world." Whether this is just Amon settling an old grudge, or he's saving the world is up for interpretation, but either way Amon is enjoying it for all it's worth.
• Clothing Damage: Happens to Lucifer when he is cast out from heaven by God. Lucifer is consumed by flames, and this scorches his blue robe off, leaving him completely naked. The author has stated that Lucifer's sense of modesty is the same as it is in canon, and that Lucifer doesn't have any shame over being naked — he's just annoyed that a set of clothes he liked has been destroyed.
• Cupid's Arrow: In one drawing Akira compliments Ryo's hair, which has become fluffy due to a lack of brushing. Akira thinks the hair looks nice, and Satan who is watching this exchange from inside Ryo's subconscious is blushing at the idea that Akira likes his hair. A symbol of a heart having an arrow shot through it pops up next to Satan, showing how much the angel was flattered by this statement. Soon after Satan quietly laughs and utters "Dumb human..." but is clearly glowing from the praise.
• Curb-Stomp Battle: Two examples in the same scene. God seeking to punish Lucifer summons alien esque battle angels to remove Lucifer from heaven, but Lucifer easily overpowers and destroys these opponents; serving as a nice reminder as to why Lucifer is considered the best of God's angels. Growing tired of Lucifer’s ill fated rebellion, God grabs Lucifer and overpowers the angel with zero effort: casting the fallen angel out of heaven.
• Creative Sterility: What God complains about with the angels. He’s grown tired of being surrounded by yes men who do nothing but praise him and worship him all day, and never try to challenge themselves to try new things. The fact that Lucifer questions the things around him makes him interesting to God. The irony in this situation is that the angels are aware of this creative sterility but feel boxed in by their duty to follow God’s orders: fearing that if they focus too much on self-improvement then God will start to consider them insubordinate, thus forcing them to only spend time fulfilling God’s tasks. Fear of punishment prevents them from branching out and doing new things.
• Dark Is Not Evil:
  • Despite the shadowy design God has, he is not depicted as evil. At best God is insensitive towards the feelings of the angels. In canon Satan is adamant about how God is a cold and merciless being, but we should keep in mind Satan is not an unbiased source, and he's hardly an accurate judge of character, or a 100 percent accurate source of unfiltered truth.
  • Also applies to Samael who wishes that people would stop demeaning him as evil for his dirty job of collecting souls, and points out that he didn't choose to be this way. Samael has a green and black shadowy aesthetic to match his role as a grim reaper.
• The Dark Times: The comic depicts how Earth was in the prehistoric era, when demons dominated the planet and were its sole rulers. Humans are carefully guarded by God, and are far away from the savagery of the demonic chaos that is ravaging Earth at this time. While demons had some concept of governance, and formed tribes, the demons were largely hostile to each other. The demons lived like savage animals, eating each other not just for survival but for greater power. The humans if they could see the world as it was in this time, would rightly describe it as "hell on Earth".
• Deal with the Devil: Demons can form contracts with each other, which provide certain magical benefits.
• Death World: Earth in the prehistoric era counts. The Earth is dominated by demons, who have access to a variety of otherworldly powers, and are in a state of constant war. The demons abide by a dog-eat-dog mindset, where the strongest have the right to rule, and they engage in endless slaughter to absorb more power from their victims. This is to say nothing of the dinosaurs and other mega-fauna that roamed the planet at this time. Earth is no vacation spot, but is a savage, hostile place that is alien to peace or prosperity.
• Decomposite Character: Samael and Lucifer have been considered the same character by certain works of folk lore. However it should be noted that Samael is never mentioned anywhere in the canonical Bible, and you have to look outside the Bible to even learn he exists — as far as folk lore is concerned Samael is a fairly popular villain, but he and Lucifer were never meant to be the same character despite any misconceptions. The comic goes with the logic that Lucifer and Samael are indeed separate characters, and to the story's credit because their folk lore would lead them down very different paths which would be hard to reconcile if applied to a singular character.
• Demonic Possession: Similar to the source material, demons can possess the bodies of other people. However, because this comic is depicting the ancient past before demons ever had to possess humans, they are simply living in their original bodies.
• Determinator:
  • This is a common trait among demons, where loss of blood, limbs, even their guts hanging out does not deter them from fighting until the bitter end. There are exceptions where demons try to run away or beg for mercy, but such behavior is considered cowardly and is discouraged among demons. This kind of behavior is exceptionally rare among animals, who do get the message to run away if they've been hurt. Perhaps given the nature of how eating a loser's corpse grants a demon greater power, injuries are considered a pro/con assessment when engaging in a fight for a demon.
  • Amon gets stabbed in the rib cage by Lucifer but this only makes him angry and desire a fight even more. The author states that Lucifer was thinking Amon is just another animal, who would leave him alone if wounded. Several close brushes with death from Lucifer's lightning beams do not deter Amon, and even losing his leg he keeps chasing the angel. This is fairly consistent with canon, where Amon was a tank who kept rushing at his enemies even when they drew blood, determined far beyond the limits of pain or fear to see his enemy dead.
  • Lucifer is no slouch when it comes to determination. He spent an undetermined amount of time in space, searching for a suitable planet until his stamina gave out. When attacked by Amon despite being exhausted he put up a very heated resistance. Lucifer in canon is one of the rare fighters that is so powerful that you don't see his blood very often, if you're foolish enough to fight him he's making you see your blood. But the comic does show that if the angel ever was backed into a corner, he would make his foe fight tooth and nail for their victory.
• Dining in the Buff:
  • In one drawing Akira and Satan are seen watching a movie in an apartment, both of them eating popcorn completely in the nude. As they're enjoying the movie, Jinx from League of Legends walks into the room and is shocked to find both of them there, causing Akira to drop his popcorn. Comically Jinx mistakes both of them for humanized versions of her angel and demon weapons Shiro and Kuro. Neither Akira or Satan are ashamed of their nudity, but they are totally clueless about who the mysterious woman is.
  • In one drawing Akira and Satan are seen arguing over whether they're gonna have pizza or burgers for dinner. Satan wins the argument through threats of force (and is clearly regretting that choice), but presumably they were going to eat this pizza in the nude. One wonders how the pizza man would have reacted to seeing a naked angel and a naked fluffy demon accepting pizza at the door, or if the two of them would have been daring enough to buy pizza in person.
• Dissension Remorse:
  • During Lucifer's first argument with Michael he takes pause at his brother's critique of his mischief, but blows this criticism off acting like it didn't affect him. After God scolds both of them, Michael mocks Lucifer for his tomfoolery getting them both in trouble and he flies off; Lucifer is too guilty to utter a reply and lets his brother fly off without a word.
  • Played for comedy in a stand-alone drawing. Satan and Akira are arguing over what to eat for dinner. Akira wants burgers, but Satan wants pizza. The two of them get into a shouting match, with neither one willing to give ground to the other. Satan remarks that he will cut Akira in half — again — if they don't eat pizza tonight. Satan immediately regrets it and says that he didn't mean that; the subject of Akira's death in the previous time loop is clearly a sore spot for both of them.
• Divine Delegation: This is the relationship God has with the angels. God in theory could do every meaningful task that the universe needs to maintain order and balance, but God is also a scientist who wishes to experiment and try out new possibilities. Letting the angels handle the smaller tasks, and even medium difficulty tasks, frees up God's schedule so he can do the things he enjoys. For example, Samael handling the souls of the dead full time is treated as a burdensome task for him, but God points out that he has spent considerable time handling this task himself in the past. God for his part, does acknowledge there are certain things the angels need help with, and after Lucifer's fall from grace God sees his presence as more necessary to avoid slip ups like that in the future.
• Do Not Taunt Cthulhu: God's default appearance is unsettling, taking on the form of a shadowy, purple energy being with multiple eyes on his face and no mouth. When it suits God's mood, he takes on forms that are otherworldly and mystifying. An angry God turns into forms that would be the stuff of Cthulhu's nightmares, such as twisted masses of flesh and sweeping storms of energy with eyes popping out. If Lucifer had any sense of self preservation or common sense, he would have known to leave well enough alone and stop arguing with God as soon as the personification of darkness and fear form came out. Lucifer is famous for his pride however, even if that may be self destructive.
• Dramatic Irony: There are a few notable examples of characters saying things that fit the mold of "if only they knew"
  • Lucifer is quick to remind people that he has a very low opinion of humans, and even gets a bit hateful towards their existence. Lucifer would one day fall in love with Akira Fudo (a human being), and let this love fester to the point of jeopardizing his plan to help the demons re-conquer the Earth. In canon, Satan only has special care for Akira, but it's still amusing to see the wayward angel make an exception to his twisted principle.
  • Lucifer views humans to be little better than insects, and yet would one day possess the body of a human named Ryo Asuka. This powerful angel would be stuck living in a limited human body, living an ordinary boring life; with his affection for Akira being the only highlight of his time as a human. The author has actually stated that she thinks Satan was fully aware of Ryo's experiences the entire time, and felt trapped by how weak and pathetic Ryo's body was, so this was an irony that Satan was troubled by in real time.
  • Lucifer shows disgust towards the demons, viewing their existence as an abomination. Lucifer would one day befriend the demons and become their leader.
  • In Devilman Lady, when Akira went to heaven he left the place out of disgust, because all he saw was a bunch of people giving endless praise to God and doing nothing else of value with their time. Akira's cynical assessment of God is that he was okay with this endless flattery, and was content with this stagnation. According to the comic's version of God, the deity was disappointed by this kind of behavior and desperately wanted it to change. It's almost like there's a message there about not judging a book by its cover, or coming to conclusions about someone without meeting them first...
  • Samael's rhetoric during his argument with Lucifer, implies that he thinks Lucifer will always get away with his fucked up behavior because he's the golden child and could never do wrong in the eyes of God. The prince (what Lucifer effectively is) can royally screw up, and daddy will always forgive him. If you know anything about what Lucifer is most famous for, namely rebelling against God and getting thrown out of heaven, Samael's assessment is deeply ironic.

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• Eating Optional:
  • Angels don't need to eat in order to survive, and their energy reserves naturally regulates all of their biological functions. And if their energy reserves ever became low it would naturally regenerate over time. Despite this angels can eat and digest food if they so please, but the amount of energy gained from eating is so low as to not be worth it, beyond perhaps enjoying the taste.
  • Demons are contrasted from the angels by the fact that they do need to eat in order to survive. While eating is encouraged among demons because it grants them greater power, if a demon stopped eating they would pass out from exhaustion, and would inevitably die over the long term. In the ancient past, back when Xenon was a middle manager among demons, there did exist demons who did not have to eat. These older, more powerful demons were able to survive off of their already existing spirit energy, and mostly kept to themselves — even finding the war between lesser demons who needed to eat each other to survive to be distasteful to watch. These types of demons went extinct after Xenon's rebellion, so the only demons that remain do need to eat in order to survive.
• Energy Being:
  • How God’s design looks. His default appearance echoes the design of the OVA angels, but instead of a glowing golden color God’s color is a shadowy black and purple mixture. It implies that God is related to the angels, but is of a higher order of energy. God’s shape shifted forms sometimes turn into elemental distortions, even looking like the universe itself is personified inside his physical form. Whatever energy God is made out of, it’s scary, holy, and otherworldly.
  • According to the artist’s lore, the angels are made out of star dust. So even though the angels look humanoid in nature, the inner workings of their DNA are made out of the cosmic soul energy of stars. This is why God calls Lucifer star shine, not just because Lucifer is his favorite but because the angel is literally made out of a star.
• Eldritch Abomination: God's default appearance is human shaped, but possesses unsettling alien features that would be off putting at a glance. When God gets angry he shape shifts into forms that would give Cthulu nightmares. At the start of Lucifer's ill fated rebellion, God transforms into an 8 armed beast with no head, and his rib cage rips wide open (hanging off to the side), to reveal a giant glowing eyeball in his torso. Later on when God is beyond reconciliation and is ready to kick Lucifer's ass, he transforms into a living storm with disembodied eyes and hands popping out of the storm's mass. As horrifying as these forms are though, we should keep in mind that God’s true form isn’t really comprehensible to the eyes of angels or humans, so what form he takes is really a matter of preference.
• Eldritch Location: Heaven is more than just a fluffy cloud vacation spot, but is full of bizarre, otherworldly architecture that is both beautiful and oddly flexible in its design as it shifts shapes to suit God's mood. The other thing is that Heaven is not a fixed location in space that can be plotted on a map, but is a constantly moving dimension that could be next to Earth one day and then next to a black hole the next. The author has stated heaven moving around so much is a security measure on God's part, so that intruders don't get a clean fix on where heaven is.
• Electric Love: One drawing shows Satan giving Akira a magic lesson about how to use lightning. Given Satan's enthusiastic expression — and Akira actually seems disarmed by the angel's expression — there was probably a great deal of genuine, soft affection radiating off of the angel. Who better to share your favorite magic with than your love interest? If Satan can show off at the same time, all the better.
• Elemental Barrier:
  • After Lucifer crashes into Amon, the fallen angel is left unconscious in a crater. Amon inspects the angel's sleeping form, but a powerful electrical field forms around the angel. Amon's directs his guard towards Xenon, considering Lucifer a non-issue, but presumably he would have been shocked if he had tried anything. Later on Amon tries to devour the sleeping Lucifer, but this time a lightning pulse far more powerful explodes out of the angel's body, and Amon is repelled backward with great force. The author's commentary has stated "There are perks to being God's favorite, even after he kicks you out."
  • One drawing depicts an evolved Amon (matching his OVA appearance) and Lucifer fighting a very heated battle. During this skirmish Lucifer manifests a giant lightning aura that is noticeably forming a sphere of energy around him, and his eyes have turned completely white due to the sheer power output coming from the angel. While Lucifer would no doubt be very powerful at this point in the timeline it makes sense to avoid letting an opponent like Amon get close, and what better way to prevent that than to make yourself untouchable.
• Elemental Motifs: Lucifer’s signature elemental preference is lightning, frequently letting loose electric sparks in his aura. Michael by contrast has a preference for fire, and flames can be seen in his aura. Amon likewise has a preference for fire, and so too does Akira (who has Amon's powers on account of their fusion).
• Energy Donation: In one drawing Satan exchanges his lightning energy into Akira's hands, to familiarize him with the lightning's flow, and that way Akira can learn how to generate his own lightning. The author has stated that she was disappointed that Akira does not have the diverse range of magic abilities that Satan has, ^Read Akira's powers vary depending on the adaption, so he has shown some proclivity towards magic, but primarily Akira is an up close physical fighter. The majority of the time Akira has ever used magic, it was flame based. so presumably this is an example of the fallen angel correcting that. Akira's expression shows that he thinks Satan is enjoying this lesson a little too much — ever the prideful show off that one is.
• Eternal Recurrence:
  • A huge plot point in the Devilman franchise is that every time the apocalypse destroys the world, God arrives to wipe the slate clean and rewind the clock to a time before the apocalypse. The first animation in the comic's lore showcases God coming across a primordial Earth which has been devastated by a cataclysm of some kind, and he rewinds the clock and a giant explosion of energy restores all life on the planet as if nothing had ever happened. A whirlwind of demons fly around the orbit of Earth, screaming in otherworldly voices, implying that God had to fix Earth's problems long before Satan ever fought Akira. One drawing showcases a fragmented Earth spinning in reverse when God floats in space next to it, with strings of fate flying out of the Earth's mass and onto God's fingers.
  • Jinx's other drawings are primarily for fun, but the various scenes depict jovial scenes where the characters are at peace, and other scenes where they are at war with each other — and even the battle scenes occasionally have a silly tone to them. It would be easy to interpret these scenes as snippets from various time loops where sometimes the characters "figured it out" and had happy outcomes, and of course outcomes where they fell back into their destructive ways. Such is life, they can't all be winners.
• Expy: God's design for the comic was based on two League of Legends characters. Aurelion Sol a cosmic space dragon capable of creating celestial bodies, but who also on occasion eats them out of a sense of cosmic justice. Jhin, a crazy warlord who looks like a genie and wears fantastical robes was also an inspiration. The author has stated that God's typical form as an old man with white hair and a long beard was too generic and uninteresting to be worth drawing.
• Exposed to the Elements: Lucifer on account of being naked is literally exposed in one sense, but even if he had clothes the harsh environment of space would still be a huge problem. Lucifer doesn't immediately die because he is a divine being, but the desperation on Lucifer's face shows that he knows he can't endure the harsh conditions of space forever. Issues like frost, radiation bombardment, boiling heat from the local stars, let alone stellar phenomenon like nebula or black holes would wear down an angel over time. One could almost view Lucifer's spirit energy and the aura he projects as the equivalent of a scuba diver's oxygen tank, it provides him resistance to his current problem but it has a short shelf life.
• Expressive Ears: The head wings on the angel's heads work as an effective measure of the their moods. The wings stand straight up when the angel is happy or curious. Amusingly anger causes them to stand at attention as well. The head wings remain in a neutral stance if the angel's mood is normal. When an angel is faced with fear or shame their wings will either hang low and to the side, or they will use the wings to cover their faces. Extreme joy and elation causes the angels to flap their head wings, almost like how a dog wags their tail. An angel's literal ears do flex on occasion, but the screen presence the head wings have overshadow the movements of said ears.
• Facial Dialogue: The comic does a fantastic job of letting you know exactly how characters feel with the subtle nuances of their body language and facial expressions. Intense emotions ranging from sadness, anger, hubris and arrogance are all expressed with vivid detail. Some of it does admittedly give the characters a comical edge, but it adds to the charm of the characters.
• Fallen Angel: A central plot point in the Devilman mythology is how Lucifer was an apex angel who rebelled against God because he disagreed with God wanting to exterminate all demons from the face of the Earth.
• Fan Disservice:
  • Lucifer is a beautiful, angelic being with a pretty face, feminine curves, and a nice pair of breasts. These physical traits are much harder to appreciate when the angel in question is covered in bruises, blood and scars, and is clearly having a miserable time with his life trying not to die.
  • Samael is a girly pretty boy, with his odd mixture of masculine and feminine charm. Samael is given a painful transformation by God that burns off his clothes, leaves nasty scars on his neck, arms and legs, and curses him with blindness that mark his green eyes into black eyes with white irises. Any joy you would normally take from seeing such a pretty boy angel naked is lost on the audience in light of his painful circumstances.
• Fanservice:
  • The angelic cast is full of beautiful people, wearing fancy, majestic looking robes. While many of the angels lean towards a feminine design, some angels like Samael have a certain masculine "pretty boy" aesthetic to them that is captivating to look at in its own way. As if it wasn't enough that God made a race of people that are effectively super models, they have gorgeous, ethereal wings that are simply amazing to look at.
  • Lucifer certainly counts, especially after he loses his clothes. Under those blue robes were beautiful, feminine curves and round perky breasts. However the angel is honestly no less pretty in his clothes than he is out of them. This is mitigated somewhat by the fact that Lucifer's nudity is introduced to the audience as a consequence of his fall from heaven, and the angel spends a large amount of time trying to find a peaceful place to recover from his injuries — worse yet acquiring new ones in the process. The stand alone drawings from the author showcase more straight forward fan service, where Lucifer is shown in more jovial scenarios where he's able to show off his beauty in a more relaxed environment — sometimes these moments involve the angel flirting with Akira.
• Faster-Than-Light Travel: By all logic Lucifer's travel through space would necessitate this. The universe is massive, and faster than light travel would be necessary to move within our own galaxy let alone the rest of the universe. It is a fairly grounded take on the power though, because Lucifer flying through interstellar space to find more than a million worlds does not happen instantly, and even moving at thousands of times faster than light would not open up even the Milky Way galaxy as a 2 hour drive from end to end. ^note  What makes Lucifer's journey more harrowing from a realism perspective is that on average solar systems only have 5 planets per star. Meaning at bare minimum Lucifer visited more than 200,000 solar systems. It adds a bit of perspective for why God likes portals so much, because that's more instant than traveling through space.
• A Fate Worse Than Death: God threatens Michael and Lucifer with reprogramming, to remove their erratic behavior. However the scary implication is that this “factory reset” would remove the very thing that makes them unique, and the Twin Stars would become boring angels robbed of their individuality. God is clearly troubled by the idea of having to do this, but his sons’ foolish behavior makes him seriously consider it.
• Faux-To Guide: One drawing depicts Satan in a library, wearing a blue monk robe and holding a book in his hand. The book in Satan's hand says "How To Get Your Human to Love You", and the examples listed repeat "Don't kill them" over and over again — as if this common sense was rocket science. In canon Satan did effectively destroy the world as a twisted form of romance — rather than doing the sane thing and asking Akira out on a date — so perhaps for the misguided angel this bit of advice does bear repeating. Ironically not killing Akira is only one part of the problem, avoiding the reason WHY Akira came to disagree with Satan is of more paramount importance, but it's totally in character for Satan to miss that point entirely. ^readObviously helping the demons reclaim the Earth matters to Satan, but gaining Akira's love and helping him survive is of nearly equal importance to Satan. The Amon manga depicts one of the reasons for why Satan destroyed the world as intense jealousy over Miki, unwilling to share Akira's affection with others. Crybaby has Satan treat the deaths of his demon army as an afterthought and his speech is totally dedicated to his romantic feelings for Akira. Satan's world destruction plot is partially dedicated to Akira — breaking the world as it is so he can give Akira a new world order the two of them can enjoy in private, totally forgetting Akira is too kind and loving to want that outcome.
• Feather Flechettes:
  • As a desperation tactic, Lucifer hardens one of his feathers and flings it at Amon but it misses. Given that these feathers are sharp enough to pierce through stone (Lucifer impaled the wall outside God's throne), this would have done a decent amount of damage if it landed. Presumably he was only able to throw one feather because his magic was malfunctioning, otherwise he might have attempted multiple throws to put a wall of feathers between him and Amon.
  • In Devilman Grimoire, Satan also has this power and it's exceptionally beefed up compared to what's shown in the web-comic. Satan can form thousands of feathers, and he can swarm them around his body as a defensive shield and as a potent projectile attack to wound his foes from afar. According to Satan, these feathers have been converted into platinum ^Read This is not a bad choice for metals, believe it or not. Platinum has a decent desensity, which would give it a good impact force. Platinum melts at 3200 degrees Farenheit, giving the metal a fair resistance to most forms of heat. In Grimoire Miki is fused to an Ignis demon, which in mythology are manifestations of the Earth's internal heat. The Earth's core burns at 10,000 degrees Farenheit, which allows Miki to counteract Satan's platinum feathers. Ironically Satan's 50,000 degree lightning would be able to melt his own feathers too. which would give them good impact force and a sharp texture for slicing. Satan uses them to good effect on Akira and Miki, until the latter uses her devil form's flame powers to melt them. Jinx noted that she was not aware that Satan had this power prior to writing her web-comic, but was amused by it — calling it a "happy coincidence."
• Figure It Out Yourself: God’s general approach to teaching the angels. God has grown tired of spoon feeding the answers to his creations, because the outcome is predetermined if he does and there’s no excitement to be had. If the angels figure things out for themselves, then maybe there’s a chance that the angels will make a deviation from the divine plan that is new, fresh and captivating to look at. The angels have taken this attitude to mean that God no longer loves them and has grown bored of them, but that was never God’s intention.
• The Gadfly: Lucifer and Samael both have this trait in common. Lucifer does not like to mince words, and states harsh truths even if they upset other people, and sometimes he spouts off this rhetoric precisely because he knows it will hurt people and he enjoys it. This doesn't mean Lucifer is an honest person necessarily though, because he does lie about his own feelings and covers them up with bravado and a wall of bullshit. But things he perceives to be as flaws about other people Lucifer will not hesitate to mention them.
• Guardian Angel: The comic does lampshade God associating angels with humans, and viewing them as guardians/messengers to help nurture them down a better path, which falls in line with what the Bible says about them. Notably Lucifer views this mission as beneath the station of the angels, and mocks the other angels for enjoying this.
• Giant Hands of Doom: God takes this form on a few occasions. When God appears before the angelic host, he appears as a misty white light with eyes and giant hands popping out. Later on when God is pissed at Lucifer and is ready to punish him, God looks like a living tornado complete with eyes and hands coming out of the storm. Amusingly, God forming hands separate from his own body is a legitimate canon power he had in the Bible. ^note  God warned Belshazzar that his reign as king will be over soon, and used a ghostly hand on the wall to write "You have been weighed in the balances and found wanting." In the other story Elijah saw God's disembodied hands move separately from God's physical body, and these hands moved him to a different location and opened up a scroll for him to read.
• God: Nagai did heavily base God off of the Christian perception of the deity, with various references hinting at a connection there. Outside of those vague allusions, God has never explicitly been called by any name other than God to specify him beyond just being a creator deity, and it's easy to read him as a more cynical version where God is not as nice/forgiving/perfect as the religious minded humans would like him to be, but overall he's still on the side of a cosmic harmony of some kind... or if you believe certain characters (who admittedly are biased), maybe he's kind of a dick. The comic does not try to emphasize any particular religious view of God, and just uses broad strokes from pop culture perceptions of God. The author has stated that she wouldn't be surprised if God's interactions with humans inspired many religious texts to be written about him, and God encourages this so that the humans foster a stronger relationship with him, but maybe doesn't necessarily have a preferred religion he thinks "got it right" more than the others did.
• God Is Flawed: Deviating from Nagai’s cynical take on God, where we’re meant to interpret him as the bad guy, the author chooses to depict God as a good guy. God has a sense of justice and is generally fair and kind to the cosmos at large, but he’s not really an emotive or sensitive person. God takes a hands off approach to his creations, and lets them get into mischief, only stopping to intervene when things get really bad. God doesn’t do cruel things just to be petty, but to set an example for other angels to follow, and it’s shown that punishing Lucifer was an emotionally taxing action for him, since Lucifer was his favorite.
• Good Is Not Nice: God is meant to be on the side of good, but his sense of justice requires him to punish people who have broken the rules. Even his favorite angel Lucifer is not spared from his wrath when he finds out that he is deviating drastically from the laws and moral customs of heaven.
• Got the Whole World in My Hand:
  • In one drawing God becomes larger than a planet and floats in the void, looking down upon the scene of a ruined Earth with fragmented chunks of its surface floating in orbit. Strings of fate come out of the Earth and loop around God's fingers, and the planet is seen spinning around in reverse, as God seeks to restore the Earth to a previous healthy iteration. Earth may be a troublesome planet, but God still has great interest in it, and his gaze evokes a curiosity as to what will happen next to this planet in its next chance at life — only time will tell.
  • In one drawing Satan scales his body to larger than a planet, and he sits in a storm of misty, bubbly space energy as planets circle around him. Satan pays no mind to these planets and looks above, placing his finger under the Earth as he smiles in glee at the planet — given Satan's history with the demons, and the angel's favorite person Akira was born here, the planet clearly holds a special place in his heart. The title of the drawing says "Dreams of World Domination" so the giant size could be a fantasy in Satan's head.
• Green Thumb: In canon Lucifer has the power to create plant life from nothing. The author has stated that Lucifer retains this power, and in theory could have terraformed the barren planets he visited in space. However, the terraforming process would have taken many years, and Lucifer did not want to wait that long for the planet to become suitable for life. In an animation Lucifer is shown taking a seed and growing it into a full bloomed flower in an instant.
• Grew Beyond Their Programming: This is the outcome God wants. Planning every single part of an angel’s life has grown boring for God, and he wants to be surprised by unique and unexpected outcomes. Almost like a curious scientist, God will never be satisfied unless the experiments can give more spectacular results. God admits that when he created Lucifer and Michael, their programming deviated from his cosmic plan all on their own and he still doesn’t know what caused this. The fact that a mutation altered their programming is why Lucifer and Michael are able to think more deeply than the other angels, and God has taken immense curiosity in where this leads. With Lucifer it doesn’t end in a good way…
• Grey-and-Grey Morality: How God and Lucifer’s feud is portrayed. Michael points out to Lucifer that God has given them so many gifts, given them their very lives, and has shown them so much love, and yet Lucifer repays him with this insubordination? In fairness to Lucifer, he’s suffering from an existential crisis over what his purpose and place in the universe is, and God has been painfully tight lipped with answers to his problems. Lucifer should have been more patient, and respectful towards his father, but this feud could have been avoided if God had put Lucifer’s mind at ease. Lucifer went about it the wrong way, but God owed Lucifer some answers.
• Grim Up North: The world map shows an enormous cold continent in the Northern hemisphere of Earth, complete with a giant snowy mountain bigger than any mountain seen in the modern age. Geographic deviations for the continents are not outside the realm of possibility, given the fantasy setting of the story. We also need to factor in the canon story God destroyed the demons, which likely ruined most of the world's geography, thus requiring a restructuring.
• Growing Muscles Sequence: Eating Lucifer's wing does not just regenerate Amon's severed leg, but it also causes a transformation. Amon's snout becomes longer and takes on a more canine shape. Amon becomes bigger, and his front legs that are now starting to transition into arms start to bulge with muscle — to the point that his veins are pulsating through the skin. Amon is still mostly a beast, but his form is starting to vaguely resemble the muscular humanoid devil he was in the OVA.
• Growing Wings: The angels have the power to summon their wings at will, and sometimes walk around without their wings. Usually the angels summon wings when they wish to fly, but are sometimes casually seen walking around with their wings out, so it seems to be more of a "the wings come out when the mood suits me" sort of thing.
• Healing Factor:
  • Demons are able to regenerate their wounds through expending their reserve of spirit energy, though more severe injuries do require more energy. Eating another life form is a more instant form of regeneration that, capable of reforming even lost limbs, and is preferable to using their own energy reserves. Demons are also contrasted from angels in that they do need to sleep as part of their biological functions, whereas an angel only needs to sleep if they've been knocked out from physical exhaustion.
  • Similar to demons angels are able to heal severe injuries using their internal energy reserves. In canon the extremely rare instances that Satan was ever injured, he was able to regenerate those wounds instantly with no fuss. The author has stated that Lucifer can still regenerate from severe wounds, including loss of limbs and wings, but if they were to regrow it would take days — whereas if Lucifer wanted to heal immediately he would need to exert more energy.
• Heroic Blue Screen of Death:
  • Lucifer is prone to these. Despite his bravado and arrogance, Lucifer is a deeply vulnerable person and does not cope well with difficult situations. This is most pronounced after God scolds him for harming Michael, and demons swarm the area. Lucifer is upset by the scolding, but is more deeply traumatized by the imagery of monsters.
  • A one off drawing makes fun of this concept by having Psycho Jenny stare at a prone Lucifer, laying down on the ground unresponsive. Jenny asks what they're doing here exactly, and Lucifer responds "Having an existential crisis."
• Holy Backlight:
  • In the source material Lucifer is seen with a majestic, shining aura most of the time, and even when he tones this down the angel still has an ethereal glow with subtle sparkles coming off of him. Even the angelic host that comes to kill Satan has insanely bright auras, and their auras make a distinctive chime. In the comic the angels rarely have a glow of any kind, and their auras only come out when they're actively applying the power for it. Amusingly one drawing shows Akira and Satan sleeping next to each other, and Satan's intense glow is keeping Akira from getting back to sleep.
  • In canon God's aura is so bright, that his body is invisible to human sight — shining brighter than the sun itself. God's aura is so massive and overwhelming that it covers an entire portion of the Earth's horizon, and his holy power kills millions of demons in mere minutes. In the comic God's aura is not as blinding, since you can still make out his physical body, but his aura is still impressive. God frequently has an ethereal glow surrounding him, and his aura can easily turn blinding if he wants his presence to be known.
• Holy Halo:
  • Largely absent. Angels are able to summon a halo and wear it over their head if they so desire, but most angels in the comic choose not to wear it. Samael is the most prominent example of an angel that chooses to wear his halo, but unfortunately for him his halo broke when he was reassigned to Purgatory. Fun fact about halos is that halos as a singular circle object that floats above the head, is never mentioned anywhere in the Bible. The same way you see a prism of light form around the sun and the moon, that is the form that halos took in the Bible. The halo is really just an extension of the angel's already spectacular glowing aura, rather than its own separate thing.
  • In a one-off drawing, Lucifer is seen relaxing with other angels near a pool of golden liquid energy. Instead of marveling at the sight, Lucifer is seen holding his halo in his hand, twirling it around on his finger as if it were a toy. One of the angels present looks back to Lucifer and is not pleased by the sight of the flippant Lucifer. The author has stated that the halos are essentially a form of bling that angels wear as a status symbol, so Lucifer treating his badge of honor like a toy is likely considered insulting to their culture.
  • According to Jinx's lore, she envisions the halo as being an extension of the angel's aura, and is effectively a passive shield that protects them from harm. The halo can be manifested as a physical object, but this is moreso for vanity than providing a meaningful benefit. Jinx notes that what shocked Lucifer so much about Amon ripping his wing off, is that as far he understood it his halo/aura should have provided protection, but this can be chalked up to the angel's powers malfunctioning.
• Hot as Hell: Demons to be frank have no concern issues of modesty, or privacy when it comes to having sex. Demons are prone to giving into their lust and doing it on the spot when it suits them, and are unashamed about flirting with each other. At one point in the story succubus characters start appearing too, who match all the typical cliches of a sexy woman who seduces people to drain life energy from them.
• Humanoid Abomination: Some of the demons have forms that fit this criteria, though a good number of them look like feral animals. Angels technically count, because they may look human on the outside but are essentially alien beings made out of unique spiritual matter and the dust of stars. God himself counts to a certain extent, given that his shadowy, purple energy body with no mouth would be considered intensely alien to human eyes.
• Human Aliens: What the angels essentially are. No explanation is given for why the humans and angels generally look the same (minus the sharp teeth, elf ears, and wings), other than to guess that God has a preference for bipedal organisms as a kind of apex evolution for intelligent beings. Despite looking the same, Lucifer looks down upon humans with disgust, and does not find any comfort with the commonality of their races having the same general features. In the Bible angels were seen more as spiritual beings who could take on human shape, rather than starting out that way, so the Devilman manga and the web-comic imply a more organic existence for the angels.
• Humans Are Flawed: How Lucifer sees the humans, and other mortal organic life for that matter. Lucifer points out to God that these creatures are fragile, live short lives, and can be killed by only a fraction of their power (which he demonstrates by zapping a deer to death). They are weak, powerless beings that will never stand toe to toe with them as equals, so why bother investing time in them? God is amused by Lucifer's short sighted thinking, caring too much about the exterior rather than the beauty contained within. The author has stated that while Lucifer does eventually start to understand that humans have some virtue worth talking about. Any virtue they do have is ultimately undermined by all of their savagery and base desires, and yet the humans keep pretending they're good. Lucifer prefers demons because at least they admit to their savagery, and don't make excuses for it.
• Humans Are Insects: This is the opinion Lucifer has of humans, and so does Samael to a lesser extent (though his rhetoric implies as a death angel he can't afford to pick favorites). Lucifer claims that because the humans are weak, they do not deserve to be guided into a place of divinity when they were not born that way — it's a waste of the angels' valuable time and talents to be guiding an inferior species. Lucifer even explicitly refers to them as being comparable to lice, because he views the gap in power between them to be so vast. The irony of course being that the angels might be considered insects compared to God's power, and yet he makes time for them. In a moment of vulnerability, Lucifer does concede that even if humans were worth his time, he's scared of dangers like demons in the broader universe and feels like the angels would be putting themselves in danger trying to defend humans from such threats. Why should the angels throw themselves on a grenade for the sake of a species that are effectively cosmic children?
• Humans Are Special: A mixed trope. God is curious about the potential in creating a new variety of life form that has greater moral and intellectual freedom than angels, but even God acknowledges that they are works in progress. Lucifer dismisses the humans as weak and mortal, and not interesting enough to be worth his time. Part of Lucifer’s disdain for humans is born out of a paranoia that God no longer views them as interesting, and plans to one day replace the angels with the humans. God does not actually plan to do this, but since God doesn’t feel too keen on explaining himself, this causes a huge schism between him and Lucifer.
• The Hunter Becomes the Hunted:
  • We're introduced to Amon with him being hunted down by Xenon and a small team of minions. The minions who have no doubt been hunting Amon for days (assuming Amon hasn't been killing other demons in the mean time) are soon systematically stalked by Amon from the shadows. Amon makes quick work of the pig demon and the lizard demon, but the cat demon catches on to Amon's presence and puts up a fight. The cat demon is not much of a challenge to Amon, and he makes quick work of him by ripping his guts out.
  • Amon seems pretty confident about his chances with killing Lucifer, viewing him as a space pest that is barely worth eating — unfortunately for Amon he learns that the angel is food that puts up incredible resistance. Lucifer gets bitten in the collar bone by Amon, and in response he jams a feather blade into the demon's rib cage. Soon afterward Lucifer aims lightning beams that miss Amon's head by a slim margin, which would have killed him if it had connected given the scorch mark on his face. Lucifer misses the second shot aimed at Amon's torso, but does successfully land the third shot which slices off Amon's left leg. After Amon slaps aside the crocodile, Lucifer is at point blank range effectively and likely would have landed another successful blow if his powers hadn't malfunctioned. A healthy Lucifer is not a fighter that should be trifled with, and Amon's cockiness nearly cost him his life.
• Hyper Active Metabolism:
  • This is a valuable strategy for how demons ready themselves for combat. Demons are effectively weird alien beings that can absorb the life energy out of any creature they eat. By absorbing the biomass of another organism (whether demon or not) the demon can heal injuries from prior battles, or they can give their spirit energy a boost so they have more available strength for the coming battle. This absorbing of spirit energy can be done either through physical eating, or through an actual fusion where the stronger demon absorbs the weaker demon into their own body. In canon this healing is potent enough that it can regrow limbs in an instant, such as when Akira absorbed the bio-mass of fellow devilmen to regrow limbs that Satan had blasted off.
  • The hyperactive metabolism is brought up in the comic's story. Xenon's minions complain that even a wounded Amon is a big threat to them, and having something to eat would give them a strong tactical advantage. Amon himself heals his injuries from his earlier chase by eating those same minions. After Amon realizing it's not a wise idea to start a fight with Xenon and Psycho Jenny, when he has no guarantee of victory; decides to retreat with the unconscious body of Lucifer so he can eat the angel for a power boost.

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• Identity Breakdown: The angels suffer from this problem, since they feel like their identity is tied to God's presence and serving him... yet God himself is absent most days. This is almost like working at a restaurant and serving food to empty tables, it defeats the purpose of being there. Existential questions of whether they're suited to the jobs they have, how intrinsic those jobs are to their identity, and whether their conduct is pleasing to God give the angels no small amount of dread. Lucifer's mind breaks from the strain of these questions, while the rest of the angelic host manages to resist the urge to go crazy like Lucifer did.
• Ignore The Fan Service:
  • In some of the author's drawings, Lucifer is seen flirting with Akira, trying his best to seduce the young man. Akira ignores the fallen angel's attempts at flirting, and typically insults Lucifer's behavior as being a menace to society. In some instances Akira even uses this as a justification for a fight when the angel's teasing behavior begins to annoy him too much.
  • One drawing has a fan call Akira out for ignoring the angel's beauty, claiming that Satan is the perfect lover. Satan has a cute face, his hair is fluffy, and his wings are soft enough to cuddle with and play with. Because Satan possesses male and female parts, he's perfect for bisexuals. Akira gets behind Satan and shoves the angel in the direction of the fan, saying "Here! All yours! No refunds." which offends Satan.
  • One drawing has Akira shout at Satan's smug expression, saying that the angel needs to stop manipulating people into thinking he's cute. Akira turns to the audience and says "Come on people! Don't buy into this bullshit!" God would be proud of Akira, because the Bible follows a similar logic — saying that Satan deceives people with his beauty. Satan's smug expression only gets worse, mocking Akira "You sure showed them." and Akira for his part gets angry enough that he says "I. Will. Strangle. You."
• I Have Boobs, You Must Obey!: In one drawing Lucifer flat out says "I have boobies! Love me!" and Akira's thoughtful, and accurate reply is "No. You literally started an apocalypse!" reacting in disgust at the idea that he would be swayed by the angel's beauty and think only with his dick. Lucifer's only reply is that he did all of that for Akira's sake, to which the Devilman replies that he never asked him to do any of that.
• Immortality:
  • The concept of immortality is discussed, with Lucifer considering it an innate characteristic of divine beings. God points out that nothing lasts forever, and if you take it at face value he's probably just talking about mortals, but this could also imply that even angels have a shelf life — even if it took something like 10 billion years, death comes for everyone eventually. God seems to be the only one that enjoys immortality in all its forms, someone who is invulnerable to death whether caused by injury, time or disease. The angels by contrast simply will not grow old, and are durable to most things that might harm them but are not immune to death. Though for what it's worth, God does talk about how death is not necessarily the end but just a life form changing from one state to another, so perhaps angels have their own destination after they die. ^Read For what it's worth, Devilman Lady does confirm that Satan was obliterated alongside Akira's corpse, and that his soul was sent to hell. So even death is not a permanent obstacle for angels, since their consciousness does live on in some form. And as shown with Ryo, Jun and Lan, angels are able to possess the bodies of humans just like demons can.
  • The demons are also shown to be immune to aging like the angels are. Though even if demons were capable of aging, this would be a moot point since they have the ability to transfer bodies. Some demons that get powerful enough do begin to boast about how invincible they are, but most demons are all too aware of their mortality given the violent culture they come from — they understand that they could become a victim of a stronger demon, and their biomass would be repurposed to fuel someone else's ambition. Delusions of invulnerability don't last long in that kind of world.
• Immortal Immaturity: Lucifer definitely counts. The cliche of age bringing wisdom certainly does not apply to the prankster angel. God obviously sees that Lucifer has this trait the worst of any of them, but he considers their inability to adapt to the world without his presence as a sign of a different type of immaturity.
• Inexplicably Identical Individuals: Notably averted, since the comic uses a variety of unique designs for the different angels to set them apart from Lucifer.
  • In the Devilman continuity a good majority of the time angels are given the copy and paste treatment, where Lucifer and the other angels have identical faces and even body shapes to each other. Presumably this design choice was done to save on time, rather than making a thousand unique angel designs. However if taken literally it does give off the amusing vibe that Lucifer's pretenses of being special are just that — pretenses. Though to be fair, Lucifer's body doesn't have to be uniquely beautiful for his mind and power level to be uniquely special, so appearances can also be deceiving.
  • In the comic Lucifer's face and body build are fairly unique to him, with a host of different faces and body types among the angels. Even Lucifer's blonde hair is fairly unique, with it clashing against black and white hair seen on other angels. Samael actually stands out most notably because his hair and wings are both green. The only angel that looks the same as Lucifer is his twin brother Michael, but even then the two brothers have subtle physical traits that stand out: Lucifer's hair is more spiky while Michael's is more smooth, and Michael has freckles on his face.
• Instant Armor:
  • Lucifer and Michael both have magical armor that they can summon at will. Michael describes their armor as weapons, implying that they grant the wielder some kind of significant magic boost. The angel twins do not fight with this armor on so we don't get to see what they're capable of. God punishes them for Lucifer's casual attitude towards using those weapons (noting they could have gotten hurt), and the armor is stripped from them. Since Michael wears armor in Jinx's other drawings, and he eventually wears armor in Devilman Lady, it's fair to guess that God gave Michael new armor later on.
  • Lucifer's armor is a mix of black and blue, while Michael's armor is golden. In canon Michael had a golden armor with elaborate sun patterns on it, and was mixed with a layer of chain mail. In the comic Michael's armor is a more basic plate armor, with the most ornate part of it being that the shoulder guards have wings on it.
• Jerk Ass With A Heart Of Gold: Lucifer counts, at least in the early part of the story. Lucifer may be a prankster and a jerk, but he does genuinely care about God and his brother Michael under all that bravado. Even the angels are given slack from Lucifer on occasion when the mood suits him, but he usually keeps these thoughts to himself. If Lucifer was more sentimental, then he might be a pleasant person to be around, but unfortunately his mind isn't built that way.
• Jesus Was Way Cool: Played for laughs in one drawing. Satan aggressively flirts with Akira, with him shoving Akira to the ground as a result of his forceful seduction. Satan with a sadistic smirk on his face says "I need you!" to Akira, but the disgusted young devil responds "You need Jesus!" to express exactly what he thinks of Satan's misguided romance. Despite the joke, it's pretty high praise coming from Akira ^ReadAkira's opinion on Miki's Christianity is that he respects her religion and engages in it for social reasons, but is fairly ignorant about what the Bible itself actually says. Akira speaks positively of God in the lead up to the finale, saying he believes the Devilman army can be God's chosen heroes who will save the world from Satan's wrath. Devilman Lady is the only outlier where Akira's opinion of God begins to sour, and uses this as his reason for leaving heaven. More bizarrely Akira accepts Satan's offer to fight God far too casually. For the majority of the franchise Akira understandably places his rage towards Satan. that he holds up Jesus as a gold standard of morality to follow.
• Just a Flesh Wound: During the opening skirmish of Amon's fight with Lucifer, the demon bites a large chunk of flesh out of Lucifer's shoulder. While this wound does not take Lucifer out of the fight immediately, it did drain a lot of the angel's stamina and eventually leads to his powers malfunctioning. A considerable amount of blood oozes out of the wound no less. This is ultimately justified on two counts. One, angels have the ability to regenerate their wounds with enough time. Two, angel anatomy is not necessarily the same as human anatomy, so a horrible shoulder wound like the one Lucifer has wouldn't be an immediate death sentence — though it stands to reason lethal injuries are still possible to inflict on an angel, just that it's harder to achieve than it is for humans.
• Keeper of Forbidden Knowledge: In the comic oracle demons like Psycho Jenny gain deeper understanding of the world by meditating their psychic powers. This allows them to learn valuable truths that are useful to their demon masters, but this does come at a cost to their sanity — especially since learning too much from the dream world causes them to no longer be able to sleep.
• Laser Cutter: During the fight with Amon, Lucifer gets off a lucky shot with his lightning that cleanly slices off Amon's front left leg. Real lightning burns at 50,000 degrees (hotter than the surface of the sun) so it would not do nice things to organic matter if it connected. A clean slice like that is probably a bit charitable to what would actually happen, but the point is that the leg would be gone like a bad habit if it connected.
• Light Is Not Good: Lucifer is undeniably beautiful, both in terms of conventional attractiveness and the beauty of his wings and aura, giving him an otherworldly beauty. This beauty is only skin deep however, because Lucifer is rude, quick to anger, arrogant, and extremely stubborn. It only gets worse from there, since Lucifer is fated to become Satan and will be the primary villain of the story by the time of Devilman’s continuity. God by contrast looks like a shadow monster, but is generally a force for good.
• Loveable Rogue: How Lucifer perceives himself. Lucifer is one of those rebel without a cause types who does things just because they’re fun, but ultimately doesn’t appreciate the consequences of his actions until its too late. In a more optimistic story, his pranks and snark, and devil may care attitude would be a mild bump in the road, but much is expected of Lucifer because God views him to be very important – so he’s not allowed the freedom to be a lovable rogue, as much as he’d like to be.
• Loves Me Not: In one animation Lucifer is seen growing a seed into a full bloomed flower, so he can play a game of "he loves me, he loves me not." Presumably Lucifer is thinking of Akira as he does this, and crushes the flower in anger when he finishes the flower on a "love me not".

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• Mad Oracle: Applies to certain demons. In the comic's magic system there are special psychic demons who are able to gain greater powers and understanding of the world by meditating deeply. Jinx calls this class of demon Seers. When they meditate deeply enough their body prevents them sleeping, presumably because the strain from gaining more power in the dream world might kill them. Psycho Jenny is eventually revealed to be a Seer.
• Magical Barefooter: How the angels are portrayed. Lucifer and Michael in particular (the angels we see the most of) are shown walking around barefoot constantly. The only exception is when they deploy their battle armor, at which point they gain metal boots. Michael eventually averts this in the comic's universe, and in canon, when he starts wearing his armor constantly.
• Magically-Binding Contract: For Jinx's 500 follower special she drew a picture of Satan carrying a long scroll, with the names of various demons on them. The majority of the names are rendered as scribbles, but a few stand out names like Amon, Sirene, and Jinmen are present on the scroll. There is yellow blood on portions of the scroll, implying that some of the demons did not render their name to the scroll willingly. Alternatively, the blood could be there for flavor, because the angel thought it looked cool. One ponders how some of the demons with more claws than they have hands managed to sign this scroll, but it's probably better not to think about the logistics of that...
• Magic Genetics:
  • In Devilman Lady a demon named Vuravua tells Akira that demons were once a precursor race, that had bodies similar to humans (symbolism of Adam and Eve is used), who awakened a mutation which granted them greater power. Somehow the demons evolved an assimilation power that allowed them to merge with anything they touched and gain its abilites — encouraging a system of fighting strong opponents to gain ever greater power. Vuravua claims that the inital demon evolution resulted in a lot of demons reverting to primal instincts, gaining power at the loss of intelligence. The merging power negated this, because demons could consume the bodies of worthy demons and increase the value of their own power and intelligence.
  • In the web-comic's lore demons are essentially like a dark and twisted version of Pokemon. The demons possess unstable DNA that assimilates the body traits of whatever the demon eats, and it gets stored away as a potential path for evolution that could be followed at a later time. When a demon gets strong enough, it applies the physical traits of whatever the demon's biology deems is most adept at giving the demon greater power. Jinx does note that demons don't always get the best outcome they desired, leaving them as twisted abominations in some cases (this was her logic for why some demons seem to have unfortunate mutations that don't aid them much).
• Malicious Misnaming:
  • Lucifer's iconic nickname of Morning Star is said with reverence by God, but when repeated by Samael the death angel spits the nickname back at him as if he were implying Lucifer was a stuck up daddy's boy with entitlement issues. To be fair to Samael, he's not wrong.
  • In one fan letter Amon grabs Akira in a mock affectionate way, informing the devilman that he has fans too. Amon addresses Akira as mortal (even though he has the nature of a demon and will not age), showing how the two of them are definitely not friends. And to make it worse Amon addresses Satan as a Furby, which the angel is none too pleased to hear.
  • One drawing has Akira at a loss for words on how to describe Satan, clearly fed up with his shenanigans as the angel flirtatiously twirls his hair. Satan interjects saying Akira wants to call him lovely. Akira rejects this, and Satan tries again by saying Akira wants to call him pretty. After a pause, Akira decides despicable is an appropriate term for the fallen angel, and smacks a feather off of Satan's head wing to punctuate the moment. Satan pouts at Akira in response, with an angry vein popping out.
• Meaningful Background Event: If one pays attention, there are several occasions where Lucifer is talking to someone and other characters are moving around in the background, and the story does not stop to explain what the other characters are doing. The focus is on Lucifer’s perception of the world, but all the same it does give the story a nice sense that there is a world beyond Lucifer and his life. The background nature of these characters also helps invoke a degree of mystery, where the audience can fill in their own answer as to what’s going on with them.
• Mood Whiplash: Happens a few times. The author is not afraid to go from happy moments with Lucifer and Michael bantering, to fire and brim stone judgment from God in the very next scene, just as one example.
• Morphic Resonance: God is fond of shape shifting into various bizarre and otherworldly appearances, but the consistent physical trait that keeps appearing is his yellow eyes with rings in the cornea. Even when God takes on forms that look like they’re made out of mist or flames, the glaring cold eyes persist. The one time God doesn’t follow this trend is when he makes a dramatic entrance to scare Lucifer and Michael into submission, and this time he appears with a skeletal face and a piercing cyclops eye.
• Multi Purpose Tongue:
• The Needless: Angels are never shown eating, drinking water, or needing sleep as a daily requirement for them. Lucifer survives the vacuum conditions of space with no signs of discomfort, showing that oxygen is not a necessity for him to survive. Michael in the backstory is said to have encountered the space whales with Lucifer, so it's probably fair to guess the same rules apply to him as well. Notably there is an exception for when an angel has exhausted their energy reserve, where at that point they do need to rest to recover their power. Lucifer passes out from exhaustion after exerting himself constantly with no rest, but it's fair to guess that under normal circumstances an angel has so much reserve energy that they could go for eons without sleep.
• Never Smile at a Crocodile: When Lucifer flees into the jungle to escape from Amon, he slips and falls into the path of a prehistoric crocodile. The crocodile sticks his tongue out, almost appearing to smile at the prospect of an easy meal, and tries to eat the wounded angel. Amon swats this crocodile aside, not wanting anyone else to have his prey. For reference this crocodile is easily 3 times taller than Amon is, and yet a wounded Amon is still stronger than this beast. This gives some perspective on how demons are at the top of the food chain in the primordial era of Earth.
• Nigh-Invulnerability:
  • The concept of invulnerability is discussed in the story, and Lucifer uses it as a bench mark for what makes the angels divine, which is why the humans/other animals are worthless for lacking it. In practical terms the angels are just very durable rather than immune to all damage, and a stronger angel is capable of killing a weaker angel. And God because he is far stronger than any angel has the ability to destroy any angel he wishes, something angels wrestle with as a private fear of theirs; hoping they never disappoint him enough to warrant such an outcome.
  • In the comic Lucifer takes a lot of abuse. He takes some hits from God's combat angels, is thrown out of heaven with insane force by God (an explosion of light results), is exposed to the harsh conditions of the void of space, flies around for an undetermined amount of time in space, is sucked into a black hole, and hits the Earth like a meteor leaving a big impact crater. When God built Lucifer, he clearly made him to last and constructed him out of sterner stuff. Notably this is in line with the canon Satan, who in years of adaptions has fought Akira without receiving so much as a scratch on his body from their fight.^read Across the franchise Akira has only beaten Satan once, and this was in Violence Jack. In the Amon manga, Amon was able to wound Satan but left no crippling or permanent wounds and Satan won with plenty of power left to spare.
• Nightmare Face:
• No Mouth: God has no mouth in this depiction. This implies that God's physical form could be made out of the same photon energy the OVA angels were made out of, who likewise had no mouth. The one exception is when he gets angry and shouts at Lucifer and Michael, and the cosmic shadow skin of his face rips open to form the shape of a mouth, but there are no teeth inside said mouth.
• Not a Morning Person: One drawing depicts Satan and Akira cuddling next to each other, with Akira's wing draped over Satan. When Akira realizes that Satan is beginning to wake up, he asks if he can have his wing back but Satan responds he wishes to sleep for a while. Presumably even though Satan doesn't need sleep as a biological function, he might view it as a form of stress relief.
• Not So Extinct: Implied. Michael tries to de-escalate the argument between his brother and God by pointing out he should feel honored God gave them the task of looking after humans. Lucifer angrily rebukes Michael, pointing out that he saw the demons just like he did, and what are they supposed to make of a supposedly extinct life form? This implies that God and the angels probably purged the demons in some way in the past, and they faded into myth/a bad memory that angels preferred to forget about.
• Not So Stoic: God is typically depicted as calm, quiet, analytical and above all else in control of his emotions. The few exceptions are all a result of his problem child Lucifer.
• One-Gender Race: The angels are a curious example.
  • In the Bible itself angels are always depicted as men. You have to look towards certain Christian folk lore to get examples of female angels. ^Read The concept of angels can be found in Sumerian, Egyptian and even Greek writings prior to the creation of Judaism/Christianity. The angels of those texts were both male and female, differing from the Abrahamic tradition. It is mentioned that angels in ancient times had sex with women and produced a hybrid race called Nephilim, so it is canon to the Bible that angels are capable of reproduction. Elsewhere in the Bible angels take on bizarre forms that are beastly or hardly organic, so the "male human body" is probably more of an abstraction the angels create so humans can understand them.
  • In Devilman canon the angels are hermaphrodites, and typically favor a feminine design. While there are some angels that favor some masculinity, angels are still feminine enough that if you squint you can confuse them for a boy or a girl. The issue of reproduction is less clear, because in theory creatures with both sets of genitals would be able to reproduce in either sense (carrying a pregnancy, or insemination), but the story never addresses if angels care to reproduce with each other. If nothing else, Satan at the very least was capable of sexual desire (Satan's love for Akira), but since we only have one canon example it's hard to tell if Satan's behavior can speak for his entire race.
  • The comic handles the genital situation by giving each angel a thick pubic fur that makes any genitals impossible to see, so the viewer is left to use their imagination whether any given angel has both sets or only one. Similar to Devilman canon, the issue of reproduction is ambiguous and it's unclear if the angels even see a meaningful difference between a "male" or "female" angel. Similar to the Bible, beastly and non-organic angels show up, complicating how gender factors in for them. The biggest take away for all of this is that angel biology is weird, and the less you try to make sense of it the more sane you'll be.
• Only Sane Man: How Michael views himself in relation to Lucifer. Michael often has to clean up Lucifer’s mess, or otherwise apologize for his brother’s mistakes (since Lucifer is too arrogant to do so himself). Michael also finds himself being the voice of reason trying to convince Lucifer not to make dumb choices, but sadly Lucifer never listens.
• Otherworldly and Sexually Ambiguous: The angels are portrayed this way. Much like in the manga, angels are androgynous and look like a blend between male and female — possessing breasts, and both male and female reproductive organs. The author refers to Lucifer and Michael with he/him pronouns and the two characters call each other brothers in-universe. The more alien looking angels that don’t even have humanoid bodies would be harder to classify (and maybe we shouldn’t try…)
• Our Angels Are Different: Like the Bible tradition, angels are God's apex creations and his best servants. While the exact creation process of what makes an angel is left ambiguous, we are told that angels are spiritual beings made to exist in a spiritual realm beyond mortal comprehension. While angels could take human form and speak to humans on occasion, their existence is emphasized as utterly alien to our own and far above us — Jesus taking a human form is expressly pointed out as a deity taking a form lower than the angels. Devilman largely just treats them as organic beings with immense magical powers, with only vague allusions to a spiritual existence. The comic does place emphasis on them as organic beings, but with the unique spin that their bodies are made out star dust and the souls of stars. ^read Scientists acknowledge that the death of stars does seed the universe with the ingredients for the development of planets and other celestial bodies, and that humans and other organic life is effectively made out of the remains of star dust. The angels are effectively a more beautiful/poetic version of that concept, with a bit of a magical spin to it.
• Our Demons Are Different: In Devilman, the demons aren't necessarily the same as what popped out of Abrahamic religions or even the traditions of the Far East, and are more like an ancient race of alien monsters who are able to fuse with other living things and even objects to some extent. The demons gain unique abilities when they fuse with or transfer their souls into another living being, and this often creates bizarre chimera forms. Canon implies that the demons likely inspired certain real world religions and their monsters, but any specific spiritual significance those demons had to those cultures is largely irrelevant. The closest resemblance the Devilman demons have to Christianity is that they serve Satan, and even this version of Satan is different from the Bible tradition in a number of ways. The powers of the demons are varied and otherworldly, and are a notable danger to humans (less so to angels, but some danger is still present), but in a twist of fate their unique ability to possess bodies can be resisted by beings with a noble heart — as Amon learned the hard way when Akira contained his demonic soul inside his human body, and then stole Amon's powers.
• Overdrawn at the Blood Bank:
  • Lucifer receives two horrible injuries from Amon that cause him to bleed profusely. The first is a bite mark to his collar bone, with a significant chunk of flesh ripped out and it leaves a nasty scar that continues to bleed for the rest of the fight/chase scene. Notably Lucifer and Amon's blood collectively form a pool in the middle of the cave during their stand off. Later Amon corners Lucifer and rips off one of the angel's wings with his teeth, causing a huge gush of blood to shoot out of the severed wing. If Lucifer's biology worked anything like a human he would likely be dead already, if not at least passed out from the shock.
  • The first time we see Amon he's on the run from Xenon and his minions, leaving behind a long blood trail. He closes these wounds by eating one of Xenon's minions, but is later impaled in the chest by Lucifer after he bites the angel. When Amon chases after Lucifer, the angel slices off one of Amon's legs, and that wound oozes blood like a fountain. Amon rather than running away to go get that wound tended to, continues to chase Lucifer making the bleeding worse. It's a miracle the demon didn't pass out from blood loss.
• Painting the Medium: On a few occasions God's dialogue panels change into a completely alien language, with bizarre symbols and odd letters, but these are overlaid on top of English words. Most notably when God arrives to scold Michael and Lucifer, the two of them are completely unable to process what he just said (because they're scared shitless) and God's dialogue is alien, but as soon as he repeats himself the English text pops out of the alien text. Presumably beyond looking cool, this might imply that the culture of heaven has its own unique language; that is read as English by the minds of the angels because they understand what the words mean.
• Pimped-Out Cape: God's cape is elegant and well designed, marked with images of constellations and clouds. Only the best for a creator deity.
• Pointy Ears: The majority of the angels are seen with elf-like ears, with only a few exceptions here and there. God has elf ears in his default appearance, but since he is a shape shifter this shouldn't be meant to imply that the elf ears are intrinsic to God's nature or that the angels are copying an aspect of God's nature. Amon has sharp pointy ears, but this is not a common trait among demons.
• Posthuman Nudism: The demons and angels are treated as more primal than humans, and don't have any shame over their nudity. While the demons are sexual beings, who give in to lust on a regular basis, even when they're not ready for sex they walk around in the nude with no second thought. The angels are shown wearing clothes in heaven, but this is implied to primarily be for social caste/ceremonial reasons. Lucifer after losing his clothes is not ashamed of his breasts or exposed crotch, and doesn't comment on it as a problem — similar to Satan's shameless nudity in canon.
• Power Palms:
  • Lucifer is very fond of expressing lightning energy out of his hands, to the point this is effectively a character tic of his. Sometimes it's just to alleviate boredom, other times it's to show off, and in rare instances he amps up the electric force to show he's ready to fight.
  • Akira and Amon are shown producing fireballs in their hands, and showcasing a similar prideful tone to what Lucifer displays with his lightning. Michael is also shown producing flames in his hand from time to time, but nowhere near as frequently as Lucifer's displays of power.
• Powers Do the Fighting: In canon Satan primarily uses his powers to fight his battles. It's not that the angel never punches or kicks his opponents, but Satan has such an immensely high power level that he can reduce his foes into a greasy stain on the pavement with a single well placed energy blast. Why bother with melee combat if you don't need to? The author wanted to give the combat scenes more variety and spice, so she went out of her way to give Lucifer a feather arm blade in order to give him a signature close range attack. Even without the arm blade, Lucifer is shown delivering punches, and even tackles his enemies.
• Power-Strain Blackout:
  • This happens to Lucifer at the end of his journey in outer space. Justified on account of receiving a one sided beat down from God. Not to mention the amount of energy he wasted searching through space for good planets. Making it worse, just as Lucifer was winding down into a coma essentially, a nagging voice appeared in his head, and he exerted the last of his strength to make the voice shut up. Lucifer understandably blacks out, and as he's being sucked into a black hole his last thoughts are if this is what death feels like.
  • Amon passes out after escaping from Xenon's grasp. For context he was ganged up on by his own tribe, killed pursuers for days on end, was cornered by Xenon and Psycho Jenny, and was THEN hit by Lucifer falling from space. Understandably the grumpy cat demon is running on empty after all that abuse.
• Pragmatic Adaptation: The author has tried her best to take ideas from across the Devilman franchise, but inevitably certain characters or subplots will either be left out or repurposed. Jinx has said it has been a challenge to weave together plot elements into a cohesive story, while also fleshing out everything she wants to depict.
• Prequel: What the story ultimately is. It explores a delicate part in the Devilman timeline, which the manga itself has barely ever explored. The comic explores Lucifer’s fall from grace in heaven, his expulsion from heaven by God, the era when demons controlled Earth, and ultimately Lucifer’s rise to power in the demon hierarchy as Satan. The author has emphasized however that she views her comic as an Alternate Universe more than anything, and that her story should not be seen as a one to one ratio with canon, and is just her perception of what she would like to believe happened. ^readGiven the time loop nature of the franchise’s lore, it wouldn’t be impossible to guess the comic’s story might be one of many variations
• Puny Earthlings: How Lucifer treats humans. Lucifer sees them for what they are in the here and now, rather than what they could be (how God sees them). Lucifer sees a bunch of tiny mortals, with short life spans, no powers, and they're so fragile a stiff breeze could kill them. And yet God has the audacity (in his eyes) to ask the angels to look after the humans, and guide them until they're ready for God to show them more about the universe? Making it more upsetting for Lucifer, is he wishes God would leave behind some kind of manual to make this process easier, but God is hellbent on the angels and the humans figuring it out for themselves. Lucifer loses patience and mouths off at God, and the rest is history...
• Purgatory and Limbo: Purgatory as a general realm of the dead is depicted in the comic's continuity. No mention is made of heaven as a paradise for humans (or other applicable intelligent life), or hell as a punishment for unworthy beings, so this implies that the story exists at a time when God hadn't yet figured that system out. Keeping with Catholic and even Greek Mythology tradition, purgatory (the underworld) is an "unpleasant place" but not a place of relentless torture and pain. It may be dreary and dark (Lucifer even refers to it as a Shadow Realm at one point), but boredom will be your worst enemy in this place rather than pain. God does mention the concept of guiding the souls in Purgatory to their final destination, and Lucifer even refers to the concept of "processing the waste of galaxies" when mocking Samael, so a higher status beyond Purgatory is at least implied.

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• Rage Breaking Point: Lucifer's build up of annoyance and anger is obvious during God's presentation of humanity, and his mission statement for what he wants the angels to do with them. While the angels are celebrating and showing excitement, Lucifer's face grows more and more sour until finally he shouts at God, interrupting the magic of the moment. Michael for his part looks like he just had a "I can't believe we're related" look of disgust and anger in reaction to Lucifer's tomfoolery.
• Ragtag Bunch of Misfits: How Michael and Lucifer are perceived by the angelic host. Lucifer is the one that is chiefly responsible for the mischief, but Michael tends to get roped into Lucifer’s tomfoolery against his will and then has to clean up the mess once they get caught. Michael’s social status as Lucifer’s wing man has annoyed him, and he has made efforts to distance himself from Lucifer as a result.
• Red and Black and Evil All Over: Amon's form matches the red and black fur design he had from the Amon OVA. Xenon is mostly black, but his head does have a red texture. Amon is more of a jerk, than an outright villain, but Xenon certainly fits the evil part of the trope.
• Red Oni, Blue Oni: Michael and Lucifer are a mixed example. Lucifer is associated with blue lightning, and wears a blue robe, so he's the blue oni by visual cue. Michael is associated with red fire, and wears a red robe, so he's obviously the red oni by visual cue logic. Their personalities is where things get more complicated. In the end it's hard to characterize them as 100 percent one type of oni or the other.
  • Lucifer is wild, passionate, and openly defiant, just like the red oni is typically characterized. But Lucifer is anti-social, and keeps to himself most of the time, more typical of the blue oni. Lucifer is also respected by the angelic host, for his amazing talent, and is held up as this lofty, mysterious standard for the other angels to live up to — not unlike how blue onis are seen. However, Lucifer's underhanded pranks, and general disregard for authority have the angelic host also express annoyance with him. Lucifer also has a fragile ego, and is quick to start fights for petty reasons. The contrast between his canonical Satan persona in the manga could not be more vast, where he actually is more like a typical blue oni in that version.
  • Michael possesses serenity, control over his emotions and he behaves responsibly. And unlike Lucifer, he respects the authority of God's rules and traditions. Blue onis are typically not seen as people who rock the boat, and they know to stay in their lane, and this is exactly how Michael is portrayed. By contrast with the anti-social Lucifer who keeps to himself, and mocks people for their shortcomings constantly, and is basically a bully in some respects, Michael is much more social and outgoing. Michael is kind, friendly, and thoughtful towards other people's feelings, and tries to negotiate peace between the angels when their tempers clash. Michael is also not afraid to throw hands if he feels someone is out of line, because he attempted to fight Lucifer twice when he disobeyed God.
• Reduced to Dust: When Lucifer fights the combat aliens that God summoned again him, he makes quick work of most of them but he gets into a mid-air wrestling match with the last one. After Lucifer kills it, it gets ripped in half from the waist up. The angel's corpse does not fall to the ground but instead explodes in a cloud of golden dust. God claims that all angels are made out of star dust, but they have mostly organic features (hair, eyes, blood), implying that the combat angel was made out of concentrated star dust rather than having anything redirected towards organic matter.
• Repression Never Ends Well: The angels bottle up their feelings about various things. Their purpose/career in heaven, and whether they're suited for that. What is the overall purpose for their existence, and where is this all headed? Does God love them if they're not perfect at everything, or worse yet will he replace them if they falter? And feelings of neglect over God's seeming abandonment of heaven and his children. Lucifer is hit hard by these questions, and refuses to voice any of them in a healthy way. And by the time Lucifer does address them, it's an angry outburst at God and his own beloved brother Michael, who he physically hurts (Michael) and emotionally hurts (both of them) with his misguided rhetoric. Bottling up your feelings is not healthy, and it just makes the inevitable release of those emotions all the worse when they finally do come shooting out — Lucifer learned this the hard way.
• Requisite Royal Regalia: God has a preference for fancy rings, bracelets, and even earrings. Most notably God wears a robe with elaborate, intricate patterns of star formations and clouds stitched into it. Because this robe sometimes takes on a basic appearance, it's probably fair to guess the robe has shapeshifting properties just as God himself does. In the Bible reference is made to the fact that God wears a crown on occasion, and Jesus (the Son of God) made numerous references to treasures existing in heaven — which were not just a metaphor for spiritual enlightenment, but were literal, actual treasures — so God is not above seeing the value that bling has. The comic's logic of God caring about physical treasures is actually not all that alien to what Christianity itself teaches.
• Rule of Animation Conservation: The artist occasionally creates animated specials in the middle of a chapter, in order to punctuate how special an occasion that scene is in the story. Otherwise, 99 percent of the comic is simply hand sketched/painted.
• Satan:
  • A central focus of the story is to show how Lucifer transitions into the persona of Satan. In the Bible Satan was never meant to be seen as a name, but was instead a title God gave to the angel. The title can be translated into "accuser" or "adversary", marking the angel as an enemy to God and humanity. The comic's story has a unique spin on the meaning of Satan, that whoever wields it is marked as the King of Demons. The title even grants the user certain magical benefits that make them stronger than normal. Mind you, since God hates demons, Lucifer siding with the demons would make him an "adversary", so it's a distinction with little difference. The comic's story treats Lucifer's adopting of the title of Satan as him abandoning his old angelic nature; made only more evident by the demons coming to view Lucifer as one of their own (despite racial differences) — with this eventually escalating into leadership over all demon kind.
  • Most theologians agree that Lucifer and Satan are meant to be the same character, but even if you were to treat them as separate Lucifer and Satan were both angels. Nagai was not incorrect for depicting Satan as an angel. The Bible describes Satan as an angel of light, and warns the reader not to let his beauty persuade you to follow him, when his ways will lead you down a path of destruction. The Bible also confirms that Satan could adopt the form of a human man (argument with Jesus), and a giant red dragon (the form he used to fight Michael with). The red devil with horns and a pitch fork is misguided folk lore that had nothing to do with the Bible itself, and the comic thankfully does not fall into that trap.
• Sadly Mythcharacterized: A dual example that applies both to the original Devilman canon and to the comic (which is following Nagai's continuity to a certain extent). This is not necessarily a bad thing.
  • The Bible's Satan was no friend to humans, but he was characterized as an accuser who desired to tempt humans into sin. Satan knows his war with God is doomed from the start, so he wishes to drag humans down to his level, so that when God delivers his final punishment the corrupted humans will share in Satan's suffering. In the meanwhile Satan is not above ruling over humans and placing himself as a spiritual substitute to God's majesty. This isn't just because Satan likes having power, but because he enjoys subverting and corrupting everything pure that God has created. This aspect of Satan is most pronounced in the Book of Revelation where Satan creates a one world order, with a unified government and religion that is dedicated to worshiping him — complete with its own king (the Beast) and religious leader (the False Prophet).
  • In Nagai's conception of Satan, the fallen angel views humans with contempt, and sees their genocide as a necessity to restore the Earth to its rightful rulers — the demons. There are sentiments expressed by Ryo and a slightly "redeemed" (less evil) Satan that suggest he views humans as having some kind of virtue, but sees the humans as too misguided to live up to their own moral standards. And even in those rare moments, Satan still confesses he prefers demons over humans. It's absurd to think this Satan would ever waste time trying to establish a kingdom that ruled over humans, given his perspective on them.
• Say It with Hearts: In one drawing Satan is trying to force himself onto Akira, having already shoved Akira onto the ground and the devilman is keeping the angel at bay with his foot pressed on the crazy angel's stomach. Satan exclaims "I need you!" with a heart symbol under the exclamation point. Akira's disturbed reply is "You need Jesus!" and his exclamation point has an x carved under it, showing his disgust with Satan's advances.
• Scifi Writers Have No Sense Of Scale: Notably averted. Lucifer spends some period of time in outer space, and doesn't just magically stumble upon Earth out of nowhere. The comic shows Lucifer flying around for an undetermined amount of time, looking for planets to rest on, but unfortunately none of them have life on them. Lucifer inspects more than a million planets, but they're all barren and rocky, or they're gas giants, and not suitable to rest on. By the end of his search, Lucifer is left exhausted and is barely able to stay awake. This is realistic, because planets with conditions suitable for organic life are rare in the universe, and even if Lucifer had access to faster than light speed it would take him a considerable amount of time to explore even a portion of the Milky Way galaxy. Also, a million planets is a drop in the bucket in comparison to the countless planets that exist in the universe: Lucifer would have an easier time finding a needle in a haystack.
• Silly Rabbit, Idealism Is for Kids!: Michael interrupts Lucifer's outburst at God twice. The first time Michael is repelled by Lucifer slashing his brother's hand, but the second time Michael smacks Lucifer in the face. Michael rebukes Lucifer by pointing out that God has given them gifts, guidance and perspective on the world, and has given them love... what more could Lucifer possibly need from their father? Lucifer responds that he needs answers, and expecting him to have eternal, bottomless faith in God with no giving on his part is absurd. That kind of faith, and optimism that everything is gonna turn out alright with no concrete proof in front of them is just a worthless fantasy in Lucifer's opinion. Michael is shocked at his brother's perspective, and God for his part punishes Lucifer for his outburst by expelling him from heaven.
• Sleep Deprivation:
  • In the comic's lore this applies to the Oracle class of demons. The more power they attain by meditating in the chaos dimension, this power eventually comes at the cost of them no longer being able to sleep. Psycho Jenny is an Oracle, but during the fight between Lucifer and Amon she is seen sleeping in the grass so her training has not deprived of her sleep just yet. In a touch of realism, Oracles have to use extra magic to combat the fatigue they feel from no sleep, and they require rest and food to combat this weakness.
  • Played for comedy in a drawing where Akira and Satan are seen sleeping next to each other. Akira notes with dread that even fallen angels have an intense glow, and Satan's glow is preventing him from getting back to sleep. Akira can only pray to whoever is listening to please send help to solve this problem.
• Space Is Noisy: Averted. After getting cast out of heaven, Lucifer wakes up and tries to gain his bearings. He tries to speak, but because there is no air in outer space Lucifer is unable to hear his own voice. Lucifer does point out that the whales were able to hear him a long time ago when God introduced him to the whales, implying there are ways to negate this limitation with the right magic.
• Space Madness: The isolation of space does not do wonders for Lucifer's already crumbling sanity. Lucifer realizes he's on a time table to find shelter or else he will eventually die of exposure and exhaustion, and there is obvious desperation on his face when he sees an opportunity to hitch hike with some space whales. Lucifer spends an undetermined amount of time searching for a suitable planet, and a mixture of boredom, loneliness and exhaustion can be seen in his body language. Lucifer does count the amount of planets he explored, partially out of process of elimination, but maybe also as a way of not going insane from boredom because at least counting occupies his mind with something to do. Thankfully Lucifer's isolation in space comes to an end when he lands on Earth, but the demons on Earth provide a different type of madness.
• Space Whale:
  • Michael briefly alludes to the existence of space whales, and mentions a story where Lucifer lured one into paradise. After Lucifer is kicked out of heaven, he finds himself lost in space and stumbles upon a space whale. Lucifer tries to speak to the space whale, but the whale can't hear him due to a lack of sound in space. And assuming the whale even remembers him, the whale probably never cared all that much about the angel anyway. The whale soon flies away, leaving Lucifer alone in his search to find a comfortable planet to rest on.
  • Another space creature shows up, which looks like a manta ray. The manta ray has a black hole in its stomach, and has the purpose of scrubbing excess cosmic energy from the background of space. Lucifer after expressing an enormous burst of power is deemed as a source of energy to be processed, and is sucked into the black hole.
• Spoiled Brat: Lucifer certainly comes off this way. Lucifer is prone to boasting how special he is, and is shown to look down on other angels as boring compared to him, and views humans as lesser beings not even worth remembering. Not getting instant answers from God causes Lucifer to lash out and complain, and gets forceful enough to make threatening poses and energy displays at God, and even foolishly attacks Michael over a disagreement (right in front of God who is in an eldritch abomination form). Most telling of all is Lucifer calls his existence miserable simply because God put him through some hardship, even though he literally lives in paradise where there is no hunger, pain, death or material need. Lucifer has trouble keeping things in perspective.
• Spotlight-Stealing Squad: Played for comedy in one drawing where Satan is responding to a fan letter (a Tumblr post, but same thing really) and Amon ruins the mood by butting in. Amon boasts about how amazing his mane is, but Satan tells him "Piss off! This is my spotlight!" Amon glad that he got a rise out of the angel, smirks and asks rhetorically if that made the "feather boi" mad.
• Starfish Language: When God gets angry, his usual English text turns into a bizarre mix match of alien symbols and twisted letters that are incomprehensible. It's left ambiguous if this is the conventional language of heaven, and it's being read as English because the angels can understand it in their minds. Or if God as an all-knowing being has mastery over an uncountable number of languages, and this is a special language for him that he has nostalgia for — in essence God is "complaining in his native tongue" like a lot of grumpy foreign parents do.
• Stealth Hi/Bye: After Lucifer receives his lecture from God, Michael waits outside, hiding behind a pillar to watch his brother from afar. Michael's sword clangs against the pillar, giving away his position. Lucifer seeing a moment to troll his sibling, flies behind Michael and zaps him with an electric spark to surprise him. Michael is flustered briefly, but gets started with the conversation he wanted to have.
• The Stoic: How God is portrayed. The author has explained she views God to have muted emotions. Not that he is incapable of feeling emotion, but it’s on a different wave length than the angels. Even without this oddity, eons of ruling the universe has given God composure that the relatively younger angels severely lack.
• Supernaturally Delicious and Nutritious: If Amon is to believed angels apparently taste delicious, since he expresses a hearty sigh of pleasure after eating the angel's wing. The wing regenerating his leg and giving him a power boost was just the icing on the cake. At no point does he comment on the demons as tasting good, so presumably intense spirit energy makes the flesh taste better. Jinx states that a demon's physical characteristics evolve in proportion to the power of who they eat, so eating 1000 humans wouldn't do much for Amon, but if he ate someone powerful like Xenon or Lucifer his body would evolve into something special.
• Super-Persistent Predator:
  • In canon demons definitely fit the bill. Many scenes are dedicated to demons chasing humans not just to feed their hunger, but to satisfy their sense of sadism. Even in the rare instances that humans put up a challenge, the demons just use that as motivation to make their deaths even more painful. There are even notable instances of demons dealing horrible, crippling injuries to each other ^Read In the OVA Akira sees a demon with his face slashed open, and his eyeball hanging off to the side, and he still powers through and kills his opponent. Then there's Akira who was missing an arm continuing to pursue Sirene. And in turn Sirene kept attacking Akira, after fusing with Kaim, even though she knew her death was inevitable. Demons are persistent fighters. and refusing to give up the fight, even though most real life predators would have stopped long before then. This is likely mitigated by the fact that the winner would simply eat the loser and heal their wounds.
  • Amon's pursuit of Lucifer is relentless. He has several close brushes with death, where if any of Lucifer's lightning strikes had landed (one narrowly missed his head) he would have died a quick and painful death. Even losing his leg doesn't deter him, and he maintains the pressure. Amon is ultimately rewarded for his patience, since eating one of Lucifer's wings regenerated his lost leg and gave him a power boost. But if the goal was to stay hidden from Xenon, why waste precious time and energy on eating an angel? Demons certainly seem to get lost in the pleasure of the hunt, and lose sight of what's important.
• Sweat Drop: Shows up on various characters to place extra emphasis on how weirded out or frustrated they are by their current circumstances. Occasionally the sweat is handled in a more dramatic fashion to demonstrate fear or shock. Even emotionally guarded characters like Psycho Jenny and God are shown doing this. Admittedly this does give the story a more comical edge at times.
• Surrounded by Idiots:
  • This is how Xenon feels about the demons that help him in the chase for Amon. Admittedly they aren't the cream of the crop when it comes to combat skill, and they are fond of complaining. Xenon is still a horrible boss to work for, but it's not like his minions were anything all that special anyway — Psycho Jenny was clearly the only fighter worth a damn in that party (and of course he mistreats her too).
  • A more heroic example is God. While not every angel is a trouble maker, stand out examples like Lucifer and Samael are too busy bullying other angels and stroking their ego to do their damn job. God even remarks that his absence has removed any concept of discipline and harmony among the angelic host, and that he needs to be more present so they have a better example to follow. A more mundane example of this, is that the angels are so scared of upsetting him that they repeat words of praise and empty platitudes about virtue to impress him, and are not challenging themselves with new ideas — and he actually calls them stupid for being stuck in this mindset, something that shocks Lucifer when he hears it. God for his part, does soften on the subject later, telling Michael that he considers the angels precious, which to be fair is how some parents are: they go back and forth between soft emotions and hard emotions (praise and insults).
• Teleportation: This is an ability that God is seen using constantly. In some instances God just appears to fade out of existence, and in other instances he appears to materialize out of thin air. The demon Psycho Jenny is shown using teleportation, which is marked by her consuming her body in black shadows and fading into the background. Unlike God however, Psycho Jenny can only teleport short distances and can't overuse it either.
• Talking Animal:
  • Alluded to by Lucifer when he meets Amon. Lucifer does not yet understand the cat monster in front of him is not a normal animal found in nature, but is a demon. The novelty of a talking animal is not lost on Lucifer, and he reacts to Amon with some measure of excitement. If we touch on semantics, whether there is a functional difference between an intelligent demon that looks like a cat, and an actual giant cat is a matter of debate.
  • Samael also encounters his own instance of a talking animal in the form of Mollok, who becomes his guide in Purgatory. However because Samael is blind he can't appreciate the fact he's speaking to a talking bull.
• Terrible Ticking: During the end of Lucifer's journey in space, he ears an odd sound echo in his head. Lucifer shouts at the sound to go away, but it persists, and it causes him a considerable headache. The annoyance is bad enough that Lucifer claws his own forehead and draws blood. When Lucifer exerts a powerful burst of lightning, the noise in his head finally goes away, but the exhausted Lucifer passes out soon afterward.
• Thematic Rogues Gallery: The demons count as this. The author said that she tried her best to capture some of the weird, exotic powers the demons had in the source material, while factoring in her own tweaks and flavor into the comic's various demons.
• Theme Naming: There are multiple characters named after Christian characters, both in the mainstream Bible and Christian mythology. Lucifer is the obvious example, but Samael the Angel of Death shows up as a more obscure example.
• There Are No Therapists:
  • The cast is filled with a bunch of deeply disturbed, mentally unsound, and traumatized/neglected individuals that are terrible at processing their emotions in a healthy and normal way. Putting aside that therapy in the human sense didn't exist at this time, the angels don't have anyone to talk to about their problems of identity and mental health, partially because they're afraid that they would be punished if they voiced any of their concerns. There is also an expectation of "Grin and bear it", and that fulfilling God's word and mission in your life is the ultimate happiness you could achieve, and that anything beyond that is selfish and not worth your time. Much like real life Church environments, talking about sin and temptation and wanting to do other things beyond "the right thing/what's expected of you" is considered shameful for the angels. How much God approves of this vicious cycle of repression is up for debate, but clearly a better system than the one they had would have prevented Lucifer's downfall.
  • The demons are honestly even more fucked than the angels in the mental health department. They live in a dog-eat-dog world that encourages endless violence and conquest to serve your own ambitions. Power is what rules the day, and concepts of love, decency, and honor are rare among their kind. Assuming a demon had mental issues/guilt over the kind of life they live, they would find even less sympathetic voices to bat in their corner than angels would ever hear. Amon for his part was shunned by his clan because he tried to uphold some kind of honor system that he felt Xenon had betrayed, but he was clearly barking up the wrong tree.
• These Are Things Man Was Not Meant to Know: This is how God treats the existence of the demons. As far as God is concerned, there's the civilized universe where living beings that exist in harmony with God's laws exist, and then there's abominations like demons. God wants to keep the angels away from demons so that they aren't killed by them or worse yet corrupted by their influence. To God, this is the equivalent of not wanting their child to wander into the forest without an armed escort, because of all the dangers the wild beasts (like bears) pose to people. The fact that Lucifer's life goes downhill after meeting the demons, God was arguably justified to treat them this way.
• Thinking Up Portals: If God isn't actively teleporting himself (or others) to another location instantly, then he's doing this. Amusingly, Lucifer's experience with God's portals typically result in him being forcibly pulled through them, with an appropriate amount of shock on his face. The most exotic of the portals that God summons is a giant shadow monster with the entrance to Purgatory in its mouth.
• Tomes of Prophecy and Fate: In one drawing God is hovering a glowing piece of paper over his hand, and he's staring at it intensely. Given God's implied omniscience (all knowing), there's likely very little forbidden knowledge that would surprise the deity — unless of course God himself is implanting the forbidden knowledge onto the page.
• Translation Convention: It's logical to assume that in a prehistoric era before human civilization, that angels would not be talking to each other in English and that all of the English text is for the audience's benefit. Even something as simple as the name Michael or Lucifer, would not be those names but would be pronounced in an ancient angelic language if we were hearing the character's speak literally. God's dialogue box mutating into an odd mixture of symbols and alien letters implies that this is the native language of Heaven, and that this language is translated into English in the minds of the angels because they can understand it.

U-Z

• Ultimate Showdown of Ultimate Destiny:
  • One drawing has a woman staring in awe at a Xenomorph egg from the Alien franchise. Nearby an adult Xenomorph is planning to attack her, but Kaim the rhino devil (and subordinate to Sirene) intervenes and stands guard for the woman. The Xenomorph sensing how dangerous the devil is pauses in fright. The irony of course is that both franchises involve monsters that invade human bodies and corrupt it from the inside out, but ultimately Xenomorphs would equate to a low tier demon (lacking magical powers, but possessing super strength) by Devilman standards. The only thing that would even the odds is if a Xenomorph implanted a parasite into one of the demons and then adapted their assimilation power, and at that point all hell would break loose.
  • One drawing has Satan and Akira fighting while King Ghidorah and Godzilla are in the background. One way to interpret the fight is that Godzilla (blue hero sided with blue hero) is helping Akira, and Ghidorah (golden villain sided with golden villain) is helping Satan. Jinx's commentary jokes that she envisions this as a twisted form of Pokemon battle between Akira and Satan, with kaiju being the only beings reasonably proportional to their power. Given Satan's casual grin, this appears to be set another form of aggressive flirting with his love interest. Though a more twisted interpretation is that Satan is enjoying the act of showing off the horrors of nature to Akira, and views studying kaijus up close as an academic expedition.
  • One drawing depicts Satan fighting Guts from the Berserk franchise. The sclera of Satan's eyes have turned blue, and his pupils have turned a mystifying white, electric fury consuming the angel's body as he braces for impact against the behemoth sword that Guts wields. Guts' armor is covered in scorch marks, and one of Satan's wing tips is cleaved by Guts' sword — showing the sheer intensity of their battle. Guts is a power house in his own universe, but it's doubtful he would be able to defeat Satan, who is at least a demi-god if not outright comparable to gods of certain religions (Zeus, Odin, etc).
• Unrealistic Black Hole: After Lucifer exerts the last of his energy, he goes slump from exhaustion, but not before catching the attention of a space manta ray with a black hole attached to it. The manta ray sucks Lucifer into its black hole, and the wounded and depleted angel ponders if he's going to die as he finally passes out. The author has stated that the manta ray is one of God's "cosmic cleaners", creatures that search the deep recesses of outer space for excess spacial energy, and then they suck it in to recycle it. If the black hole operates anything like a real one, Lucifer would be flattened into dust by the extreme gravity, but perhaps this is a sign of God's craftsmanship that even this can't kill Lucifer. Ultimately, the black hole works as a worm hole and spews Lucifer out onto Earth, where he crash lands.
• Villainous Rescue: Zigzagged example. Psycho Jenny blasts Amon at just the right time to save Lucifer's life, but her goal was to retrieve the angel as a valuable asset for the demon tribe. And once Jenny gets ambushed by a nearby demon, Jenny tries to kill Lucifer to prevent him from being used by any enemy. Does it count as a "rescue" if a kidnapper saves a victim from a murderer just so they can hold them hostage? Let's just say Plato wouldn't be holding up Psycho Jenny as a paragon if this story was taught in a philosophy class.
• Visible Silence: The "..." ellipsis shows up occasionally to punctuate significant moments in the story where a character is stunned silent by the event that just occurred.
  • After God resolves the rampaging bull incident, he tells Michael to spare him excuses and he orders Lucifer to visit him in the throne room. Michael and Lucifer watch numbly as God magically strips the bull down to the bone and sends the creature to Purgatory. The Twin angels understandably have a "..." between them to illustrate how awkward that whole affair was for them. In the subsequent argument where Michael gets mad about the bull situation, and demands that Lucifer be more responsible in the future, Lucifer has a "...." over his head to illustrate his annoyance at Michael being a busy body.
  • When Lucifer effectively double dog dares Michael to cut himself with his own sword, he is disappointed to see that Michael's blood is red and he has a "..." over his head as well as some dark lines to illustrate his disgust. It takes him a moment to regain his voice and express with mild shock "It's... red?"
  • God appears as a horrifying skeletal abomination to interrupt Lucifer's argument with Michael, and the Twin Stars have their own separate "..." to express their shock and horror. When God is grilling them for misusing their powers, as well as mocking their recent tomfoolery, the twin angels have "..." around them to show they don't know how to respond. In the aftermath of this admonishing Michael flies off bitterly, and Lucifer has a "......" to illustrate his concern over burning bridges with Michael.
  • When Psycho Jenny rescues Lucifer from Amon's clutches by blasting the demon with an enormous energy beam, the angel looks at the scene with disbelief. Lucifer quickly looks off to the side to see the origin of the beam, and then turns his head straight towards the horizon again, with a "..." over his head to show how overwhelmed he is by this whole shit show with Amon.
• Visual Pun: After Lucifer is saved from Amon's clutches by Psycho Jenny, the angel stares off into the distance clearly in great shock. As Lucifer is lost in his thoughts, the angel's lightning powers finally start to surge back to the surface, with sparks of electricity buzzing around him. Why did Lucifer's electric powers finally come back? Because he was in shock!
• Voluntary Shape Shifting: Great attention and effort is made by the artist to showcase that God is capable of this. She envisions God as a primordial, shapeless spirit who can freely take on any form he desires, and often shifts between various shapes simply because he feels like it.
• The War Sequence: One drawing depicts a what if scenario where Satan has convinced Akira to join him and the demon army in the fight against God. God takes a massive form, and creates an enormous energy shield that dominates the horizon, and only a handful of Ophanim (spinning wheel) angels are there to provide support. Given God's immeasurable power, you would need at least this much opposition to even harm him, let alone even kill him (assuming you could even achieve such an impossible feat). The title of this piece is fittingly called "A fight of epic proportions."
• What Measure Is a Non-Human?:
  • An ironic inversion is placed on human beings. Lucifer views the humans as inferior to the angels in every way possible, both physical and mental, and are not even worthy to be associated with the divine — let alone given a chance to ascend to divinity, when the angels could be doing something better with their time. God wishes that Lucifer would give the humans a chance, but the arrogant angel is too stubborn to listen to rhetoric about humanity's potential, only seeing them for the inferior beings they are at present rather than considering the possibilities for what they could become. Michael does not share this cynicism and looks upon humans favorably.
  • An actual non-human example applies to the demons. God bluntly states that demons do not fit within his plan of cosmic order, and that the angels don't need to worry about them or associate with them. Lucifer quickly deduces that because they are a detriment to God's cosmic order, then God must desire their extermination, and their difference cannot be tolerated by God's perspective of how the universe should work. Lucifer draws the misguided conclusion that the angels will one day become dead weight in a similar fashion, when in truth God is simply trying to keep the angels safe from the danger of the demons by keeping their existence a secret.
• Wingding Eyes:
  • When God drops the news on Michael that he (and the other angels) will be responsible for guiding the development of humans, he has an excited and giddy reaction to this. Michael's first reaction is to marvel at how pretty the human female is, and here he has star symbols in his eyes. When Michael learns they get to keep the humans he grins ear to ear, and he has heart symbols in his eyes. Michael grabs Gabriel out of the crowd and starts jumping for joy, with the star symbols returning to his eyes to emphasize his elation. Lucifer ever the party-pooper frowns in the background, rather than being happy for his brother's good mood.
  • In the author's drawings/animations, Lucifer is sometimes seen with heart symbols in his eyes when he flirts with Akira, with him usually smiling or giggling like an easily charmed school girl as he does this. With how possessive Lucifer's flirting is, these heart eyes take on a vibe of the angel having his "eye on the prize".
• Winged Humanoid: The angels are effectively humans with wings. Some of the demons fit the criteria for being human shaped and also having wings, but this is rare. God has wings on his arms, but so far has never been seen with wings on his back. Setting God apart from the angels is the fact that the angels have white wings (with the exception of Samael), whereas God has golden wings. The manga depicts God as having a "super angel" form with golden armor and a giant sword when he fought in the final battle of the demon war, so God having wings is not without precedent.
• White Is Pure:
  • Lucifer has blue eyes, light blonde hair, pale white skin, and beautiful white feathery wings. At a glance he's an ethereal, gorgeous creature that would be the envy of any creature in the cosmos. His later incarnation as Ryo would be fond of wearing white clothing, but Lucifer by contrast likes to wear blue. Michael being Lucifer's twin also has the same ethereal beauty. However any pop culture implications of white = goodness applies more to Michael than it does to the selfish, arrogant Lucifer.
  • Emphasizing that God is an ethereal, otherworldly spirit, the deity has taken white, light based forms on occasion. Most notably when he presents a human to the angelic assembly, God appears to them as giant mass of white, misty light with his eyes and hands floating out of the mass of energy. Since God is undeniably nicer than Lucifer is (regardless if you see him as perfect or not), he matches the implication of white = goodness.
• Why Did It Have to Be Snakes?: Lucifer's brief encounter with the demons made him terrified of them, thinking of them as horrible creatures that defy description. When Lucifer confronts God about their existence, he claims that the universe can't possibly be safe for them to navigate if horrible beasts like that exist in it, and demands to know more. God remains tight lipped on the demons, only remarking briefly that they don't fit in with his idea of harmony. Lucifer is not satisfied with this answer, and continues to argue with God, which ends poorly for him. Given how much Lucifer cares for God, the demons must have severely spooked him to have sparked an outburst of that severity.
• Worf Had the Flu:
  • Lucifer is on the losing end of a fight with Amon, but this makes total sense in light of the horrible series of events that led up to him meeting Amon. God easily trounces Lucifer with an overwhelming display of explosive light, and after Lucifer wakes up he's covered in blood and bruises. The angel spends an undetermined amount of time flying through space, expending a considerable amount of his spirit energy to do so. After passing out Lucifer is sucked through a black hole, which even if we're resorting to magic logic would have hurt a great deal, and after exiting that black hole he smacks into Earth with enough force to create a crater. The fact that Lucifer even had enough energy to put up a pretty heated resistance against Amon is a miracle. And despite being weakened Lucifer came very close to killing Amon regardless. If Lucifer was at full power there's little question that the fallen angel would have been the winner of that fight.
  • Amon himself is weaker due to his own set of injuries. Amon got into a fight with Xenon over questions of demonic tradition, and spent the prior few days fighting off Xenon's minions and hiding when he could. While Amon does heal his wounds by eating one of Xenon's minions, Amon jumps back into a fight soon after. Even after hours of rest, Amon does not consider his injuries or magic fully restored so he turns to Lucifer as a source of nutrition — unfortunately for Amon his food fights back. It's probably fair to guess that even if Amon was fighting at his best, a healthy Lucifer still would have won, but neither fighter was really at their best during this skirmish.
• Written Sound Effect: Similar to comic book and manga trends, the web-comic does write out sound effects on the page for significant moments. For example when Amon rips out the guts of the cat demon he's fighting, there's a dramatic SPLAT written on the page to reflect the demon's guts hitting the ground. Another example is the bell found in heaven, when it rings it makes a dramatic DING sound.
• Year Outside, Hour Inside: Maybe. Depending on how fast and loose the story is with physics, Lucifer would have spent years stranded in space. Faster than light travel and uses of portal hopping would mitigate this somewhat, but not by a whole lot (to be frank the universe is big). If we're being generous we can shorten it to months, but still a long time. Back in Heaven God refers to the tragedy that occurred with Lucifer as "recent events", implying that Heaven has a different flow of time than the normal material universe. And it's doubtful that God would wait months or years to address what happened to Lucifer. Jinx has said that time does flow slightly differently in Paradise, hinting at this trope.
• Yellow Lightning, Blue Lightning: True to real life, Lucifer wields the most common form of lightning seen in the night sky, which is blue lightning with a white overtone. When a sleeping Lucifer is attacked by Amon, the majority of the angel's energy reserves go into overdrive and a huge sphere of lightning explodes outward from the angel, repelling the demon. Notably this sphere has traces of black lightning pouring out of it. While the black lightning is likely just a magical element, gamma ray energy would appear black if it manifested in an oxygen environment — alluding to Lucifer's nature as a being created from a star.
• You Are Who You Eat:
  • In canon a demon will often times gain the physical attributes of the demon they ate, or otherwise fused with (fusion can be both willing and unwilling), but sometimes demons don't change at all after consuming. Jinx has stated in her continuity in order for a demon to gain the physical attributes of another demon, the demon's own biology has to determine that those traits are desirable in some way and then the assimilation power will apply the change. The author specifically used the analogy of a video game skin that boosts your stats.
  • Amon after eating one of Lucifer's wings does not himself become angelic. He merely gains a power boost and his body evolves into a more muscular, canine shape. Presumably absent of any external influence, the demon's body understands what an apex version of itself would look like and merely needs access to enough fuel to accomodate that transformation. To use an analogy it might be like needing 10,000 EXP to go to level 100, but you've been eating a bunch of creatures that only give you 5 EXP. Jinx however does observe that if Amon ate all of Lucifer's body from head to toe, he actually would turn into an angel-demon hybrid. ^Read Various adaptions have shown demons eating angels, and no such transformation occurs. As far as canon is concerned, demons don't seem capable of assimilating angelic traits and powers, even though there's no logical reason why their assimilation power should have limits so long as they're actually strong enough to eat their foe. The only time an angel-demon form is hinted as being possible is when Satan demands that Amon should surrender to him and they can fuse into a stronger being, but Amon for obvious reasons refuses to become subservient to the angel.