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* PerpetualFrowner: In contrast to his earlier appearance in ''ComicNook/TheSandman'', Lucifer never smiles or laughs. In fact, one could go so far as to say he only expresses two emotions: perpetual annoyance and brief flashes of pure rage.
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* PerpetualFrowner: In contrast to his earlier appearance in ''ComicNook/TheSandman'', ''ComicBook/TheSandman'', Lucifer never smiles or laughs. In fact, one could go so far as to say he only expresses two emotions: perpetual annoyance and brief flashes of pure rage.
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* FalseFlagOperation: In ''A Dalliance With the Damned,'' a conspiracy switches letters from a baron of one of Hell's provinces to incite violence between the baron of Effrul and Lucifer. Later, the conspirators set fire to a riot within the baron's palace. {{Subverted}} in that Lucifer immediately recognizes both events for what they are.
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* FalseFlagOperation: In ''A Dalliance With the Damned,'' a conspiracy switches letters from a baron of one of Hell's provinces to incite violence between the baron of Effrul and Lucifer. Later, the conspirators set fire to a riot within the baron's palace. {{Subverted}} in that Lucifer and the baron immediately recognizes recognize both events for what they are.are and plan for such betrayal.
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* FateWorseThanDeath: For trying to manipulate him (see FalseFlagOperation above), Lucifer grants a demon a soul... that he might be [[IronicHell tortured forever in his own pain mill]] after death.
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* FalseFlagOperation: In ''A Dalliance With the Damned,'' a conspiracy switches letters from a baron of one of Hell's provinces to incite violence between the baron of Effrul and Lucifer. Later, the conspirators set fire to a riot within the baron's palace. {{Subverted}} in that Lucifer immediately recognizes both events for what they are.
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* ForgedMessage: In ''A Dalliance With the Damned,'' a conspiracy switches letters from a baron of one of Hell's provinces to incite violence between the baron and Lucifer. {{Subverted}} in that Lucifer sees through it instantly.
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* ForgedMessage: In ''A Dalliance With Demons,'' a conspiracy switches letters from a baron of one of Hell's provinces to incite violence between the baron and Lucifer. {{Subverted}} in that Lucifer sees through it instantly.
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* ForgedMessage: In ''A Dalliance With Demons,'' the Damned,'' a conspiracy switches letters from a baron of one of Hell's provinces to incite violence between the baron and Lucifer. {{Subverted}} in that Lucifer sees through it instantly.
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* ForgedMessage: In ''A Dalliance With Demons,'' a conspiracy switches letters from a baron of one of Hell's provinces to incite violence between the baron and Lucifer. {{Subverted}} in that Lucifer sees through it instantly.
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* AssholeVictim: At the start of the series, Lucifer has become a non-fatal example of this to ''someone'' [[spoiler:who turns out to be his own son]]. Lampshaded by Matthew:
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* AssholeVictim: At the start of the series, Lucifer has become a non-fatal example of this to ''someone'' [[spoiler:who turns out to be his own son]].Stingy Jack, whom Lucifer is strongly implied to have dealt with in the past.]]. Lampshaded by Matthew:
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* HumanityEnsues: While Lucifer is trapped in a strange town that he searches desperately for the exit, he is no stronger or able than a normal, mortal human being. While he can grow back his eyes or put back body parts (like putting his fingers back on) he can still be injured as easily as a normal person and he other injuries like wounds and broken bones heal more slowly.
* HumanityIsInfectious: During his time spent being a weak and vulnerable as a normal mortal being, Lucifer finds himself dependent on the help of others. While it's something he initially resents, he is genuinely touched by the compassion William Blake shows him by offering assistance, treating his broken leg, and sympathizing with his desperate desire to finish his task. Later when Blake is attacked and crucified, Lucifer gets him down and swears to make the one responsible pay for Blake's suffering.
* HumanityIsInfectious: During his time spent being a weak and vulnerable as a normal mortal being, Lucifer finds himself dependent on the help of others. While it's something he initially resents, he is genuinely touched by the compassion William Blake shows him by offering assistance, treating his broken leg, and sympathizing with his desperate desire to finish his task. Later when Blake is attacked and crucified, Lucifer gets him down and swears to make the one responsible pay for Blake's suffering.
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* AdaptationalVillainy: Lucifer to a degree compared to his previous incarnations. While in the previous Lucifer runs Lucifer was very amoral and put his own interests above everyone and everything else, he was more or less indifferent to others unless they were of benefit to his ends or crossed him to earn his ire. In this series, Lucifer is a much darker, sinister figure and seems to take some sadistic enjoyment in the suffering of others and those that earn his anger. While previously Lucifer was, for the most part, dispassionate and stoic in his demeanor, Here he casts an almost miasmal aura of dread and more closely portrays the common fictional image of the devil.
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* CombatTentacles: Susano-ono-mikoto deploys these against the Lilim as one of his greater attacks.
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* CombatTentacles: Susano-ono-mikoto Susanoo-no-mikoto deploys these against the Lilim as one of his greater attacks.
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* MythologyGag: An [=LAPD=] detective named [[Series/Lucifer2016 John Decker (and his wife, Penelope]] become entangled in Lucifer's fate.
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* SuperPowerLottery:
** To spare some space, just take the popular belief of {{God}}, and make it a bit less powerful, and in a fairly literal sense you have both Lucifer and Michael; however, given the series is not about {{Physical God}}s going at each other throats Franchise/{{Superman}} vs. ComicBook/{{Darkseid}} style, the reader [[HoldingBackThePhlebotinum rarely sees more than]] Lucifer boasting, exercising his infinite will and a certain degree of omnipotence and omniscience during the series' run. There are ''some'' glimpses of Lucifer's might; they're memorable. However, he prefers to rely on careful preparation and manipulation, not least because obliterating foes with infinitely-kindled primordial fire lacks a certain style. Mind you, that "certain degree" of omniscience and omnipotence includes ''creating a new multiverse''. Also, he ''breaks'' an afterlife just by visiting it.
** To spare some space, just take the popular belief of {{God}}, and make it a bit less powerful, and in a fairly literal sense you have both Lucifer and Michael; however, given the series is not about {{Physical God}}s going at each other throats Franchise/{{Superman}} vs. ComicBook/{{Darkseid}} style, the reader [[HoldingBackThePhlebotinum rarely sees more than]] Lucifer boasting, exercising his infinite will and a certain degree of omnipotence and omniscience during the series' run. There are ''some'' glimpses of Lucifer's might; they're memorable. However, he prefers to rely on careful preparation and manipulation, not least because obliterating foes with infinitely-kindled primordial fire lacks a certain style. Mind you, that "certain degree" of omniscience and omnipotence includes ''creating a new multiverse''. Also, he ''breaks'' an afterlife just by visiting it.
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* SuperPowerLottery:
**SuperPowerLottery: To spare some space, just take the popular belief of {{God}}, and make it a bit less powerful, and in a fairly literal sense you have both Lucifer and Michael; however, given the series is not about {{Physical God}}s going at each other throats Franchise/{{Superman}} vs. ComicBook/{{Darkseid}} style, the reader [[HoldingBackThePhlebotinum rarely sees more than]] Lucifer boasting, exercising his infinite will and a certain degree of omnipotence and omniscience during the series' run. There are ''some'' glimpses of Lucifer's might; they're memorable. However, he prefers to rely on careful preparation and manipulation, not least because obliterating foes with infinitely-kindled primordial fire lacks a certain style. Mind you, that "certain degree" of omniscience and omnipotence includes ''creating a new multiverse''. Also, he ''breaks'' an afterlife just by visiting it.
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* PetTheDog: Lucifer is convinced to let one of the ravens he has trapped for a spell go free... [[HopeSpot not that it does the raven any good.]]
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* PetTheDog: Lucifer is convinced to let one of the ravens he has trapped for a spell go free... [[HopeSpot not that it does the raven any good.]]]] He also expresses regret over [[TheHecateSisters a newly-formed trio of witches]] losing a member to the plague.
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* AssholeVictim: At the start of the series, Lucifer has become a non-fatal example of this to ''someone''. Lampshaded by Matthew:
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* AntiVillain: Caliban, of the [[WellIntentionedExtremist well-intentioned variety]]. He displays compassion towards others and [[spoiler:gives his father a well-deserved WhatTheHellHero over his apathy, pointing out that he could easily stop people from suffering.]]
* AssholeVictim: At the start of the series, Lucifer has become a non-fatal example of this to''someone''.''someone'' [[spoiler:who turns out to be his own son]]. Lampshaded by Matthew:
* AssholeVictim: At the start of the series, Lucifer has become a non-fatal example of this to
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* AssholeVictim: At the start of the series, Lucifer has become a non-fatal example of this to ''someone''.
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* AssholeVictim: At the start of the series, Lucifer has become a non-fatal example of this to ''someone''. Lampshaded by Matthew:
-->'''Matthew''': Couldn't have happened to a nicer guy.
-->'''Matthew''': Couldn't have happened to a nicer guy.
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* PetTheDog: Lucifer is convinced to let one of the ravens he has trapped for a spell go free. [[HopeSpot Not that it does the raven any good.]]
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* PetTheDog: Lucifer is convinced to let one of the ravens he has trapped for a spell go free. free... [[HopeSpot Not not that it does the raven any good.]]
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!! ''Lucifer (2018)'' contains examples of:
* AssholeVictim: At the start of the series, Lucifer has become a non-fatal example of this to ''someone''.
* BroughtDownToNormal: Exaggerated. Lucifer is now blind, elderly, and homeless in a town that's impossible to leave.
* HistoryRepeats: Defied by Lucifer, who [[EveryoneHasStandards refuses to abandon his son]], even though he admits he can't be a proper father to him.
* PetTheDog: Lucifer is convinced to let one of the ravens he has trapped for a spell go free. [[HopeSpot Not that it does the raven any good.]]
!! ''Lucifer (2018)'' contains examples of:
* AssholeVictim: At the start of the series, Lucifer has become a non-fatal example of this to ''someone''.
* BroughtDownToNormal: Exaggerated. Lucifer is now blind, elderly, and homeless in a town that's impossible to leave.
* HistoryRepeats: Defied by Lucifer, who [[EveryoneHasStandards refuses to abandon his son]], even though he admits he can't be a proper father to him.
* PetTheDog: Lucifer is convinced to let one of the ravens he has trapped for a spell go free. [[HopeSpot Not that it does the raven any good.]]
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* NiceJobBreakingItHero: Elaine shirking her duties paves the way [[spoiler:for God to resume his former position and [[CameBackWrong come back wrong]].]]
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* HoldingBackThePhlebotinum: Lucifer, for all intents and purposes, his powers and abilities are beyond SuperPowerLottery, but the series is not mainly about physical combat and certainly that's not Lucifer's preferred way to get what he wants. Also, it is made clear that in certain realms Lucifer has to abide to their law; so you won't get to see Lucifer going {{ComicBook/Darkseid}} and annihilating other [[PhysicalGod Physical Gods]] with his might.
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* HoldingBackThePhlebotinum: Lucifer, for all intents and purposes, his powers and abilities are beyond SuperPowerLottery, but the series is not mainly about physical combat and certainly that's not Lucifer's preferred way to get what he wants. Also, it is made clear that in certain realms Lucifer has to abide to their law; so you won't get to see Lucifer going {{ComicBook/Darkseid}} and annihilating other [[PhysicalGod Physical Gods]] with his might. It's not so much that Lucifer has to obey the laws so much as breaking them could damage or even destroy the realm he is trying to fulfill his goals in which would, of course, defeat the purpose of going to said realms.
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* DramaPreservingHandicap: Lucifer is one of the most powerful beings in existence, probably exceeded only by God and rivalled only by Michael, but he's usually operating under some limitation that prevents him from simply destroying whatever's in his way.
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* DramaPreservingHandicap: Lucifer is one of the most powerful beings in existence, probably exceeded only by God and rivalled rivaled only by Michael, but he's usually operating under some limitation that prevents him from simply destroying whatever's in his way.way. This may be justified given Lucifer's personality, ego, pride, and massive narcissism. Given who he is and his power, he seems to find WhenAllYouHaveIsAHammer solutions and getting his hands dirty beneath him. Put it this way, if you were more powerful than 99.99% of everything in the universe by a wide margin, everything would be and ant to you. Why not not have the ants do the ant work which is beneath you?
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[[Series/Lucifer2016 Lucifer got a series on FOX in 2016]], with Tom Ellis playing the character. Like the comics, it focuses on him as he decides to leave the literal Hell for Los Angeles, aka Hell on Earth. There, he runs a very popular nightclub while also doing [[DealWithTheDevil "favors"]] for various people. When a singer with a promising career he helped start is gunned down in front of him, he finds himself with an urge for punishing sinners once again, and he strikes up an unusual partnership with a local homicide detective.
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[[Series/Lucifer2016 Lucifer got a series on FOX in 2016]], with Tom Ellis Creator/TomEllis playing the character. Like the comics, it focuses on him as he decides to leave the literal Hell for Los Angeles, aka Hell on Earth. There, he runs a very popular nightclub while also doing [[DealWithTheDevil "favors"]] for various people. When a singer with a promising career he helped start is gunned down in front of him, he finds himself with an urge for punishing sinners once again, and he strikes up an unusual partnership with a local homicide detective.
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* DivinelyAppearingDemons: Lucifer is depicted as a handsome man with golden wings, and is consistently shown as one of, if not the, most attractive of all the angels.
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* DivinelyAppearingDemons: Well, ''devil''. Lucifer is depicted as a handsome man with golden wings, and is consistently shown as one of, if not the, of the most (if not ''the'' most) attractive of all the angels.
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** The Jin en Mok and the Silk Man. Okay, ''you'' watch them eat if you don't believe me. They're stated to be leftover beings from a previous version of the universe who want to get out of this one and start their own using Lucifer's gate.
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** The Jin en Mok and the Silk Man. Okay, ''you'' watch them eat if you don't believe me. They're stated to be leftover beings from a previous version of the universe who want to get out of this one and start their own using Lucifer's gate.
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* SunnydaleSyndrome: Played with and semi-subverted in terms of how far the more incidental humans (etc.) around the main cast seem to have any idea what's going on. After a while they just seem to sort of roll with it.
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* SunnydaleSyndrome: Played with and semi-subverted in terms of how far the more incidental humans (etc.) around the main cast seem to have any idea what's going on. After a while they just seem to sort of roll with it.
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* BittersweetEnding [[spoiler:Everyone pretty much gets a happy ending, except Lucifer, who can never have the one thing he truly wants, so he disappears into oblivion. Whether he just separates himself from everything or destroyed himself is up to the reader. Elaine Belloc doesn't end any happier, she has to cut ties with everyone including her best friend and fellow goddess, and gives everyone something they want (but not necessarily what they want the most), giving the entire cast a BittersweetEnding.]]
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* BittersweetEnding BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler:Everyone pretty much gets a happy ending, except Lucifer, who can never have the one thing he truly wants, so he disappears into oblivion. Whether he just separates himself from everything or destroyed himself is up to the reader.oblivion. Elaine Belloc doesn't end any happier, she has to cut ties with everyone including her best friend and fellow goddess, and gives everyone something they want (but not necessarily what they want the most), giving the entire cast a BittersweetEnding.]]
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** [[spoiler:Also Michael Demiurgos, who seems to have come back as a blindly obedient archangel, in contrast to his more rebellious self in the original series.]]
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* HellHasNewManagement: Christopher Rudd manages to go from damned soul to sextoy for the nobility of Hell into one of the nobility himself and eventually ruler of Hell.
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* HellHasNewManagement: Christopher Rudd manages to go from damned soul to sextoy for the nobility of Hell into one of the nobility himself and eventually ruler of Hell. This is, of course, after Lucifer resigns rulership of hell and it gets turned over to two angels in ''ComicBook/TheSandman''. As Gaudium remarks later, rulership of Hell seems to be "something that any schmendrick can add to his resume these days."
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* DidYouJustFlipOffCthulhu: With the alignment flipped. Mazikeen, in the Silver City, surrounded by the assembled hosts of heaven. Passion is blasphemy, and she has a powerful need to blaspheme. So she [[TakeThatKiss kisses Beatrice, passionately, while giving the angels the finger]]. Also Lilith, who slapped [[spoiler:Yahweh]] in the face!
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* DidYouJustFlipOffCthulhu: With the alignment flipped. Mazikeen, in the Silver City, surrounded by the assembled hosts of heaven. Passion is blasphemy, and she has a powerful need to blaspheme. So she [[TakeThatKiss kisses Beatrice, passionately, while giving the angels the finger]]. Also Lilith, who slapped [[spoiler:Yahweh]] in the raked her fingernails across [[spoiler:Yahweh's]] face!
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* DistractedFromDeath: A sideplot in the third volume has an example. A pair of human friends (later lovers) run away from home and sneak into Lucifer's home in Los Angeles. Because it's not a natural place, they wind up wandering it for days without food or water. At one point, the guy wakes up and, without realizing that the girl is dead, tells her to rest while he searches for help.
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* DistractedFromDeath: A sideplot in the third volume has an example. A pair of human friends (later lovers) run away from home and sneak into Lucifer's home in Los Angeles. Because it's not a natural place, they wind up wandering it for days without food or water. At one point, the guy wakes up and, without realizing that the girl is dead, tells her to rest while he searches for help. He doesn't live much longer himself, dying after Lucifer, angered that they trespassed without permission, refused to help him.
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* BackFromTheDead: [[spoiler: Michael Demiurgos, who was killed by [[BrainwashedAndCrazy Lucifer]] in the original series. Unfortunately, because God's a mind-controlling OmnicidalManiac, it also crosses with CameBackWrong.]]
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* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: [[spoiler:Medjine's abusive foster family never comes up again. Michael is a more egregious example.]]
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* TheDogBitesBack: Played with. It's Izanami's reason for getting revenge against Lucifer... but it was a fight ''she'' started to begin with.[[spoiler: It's also deconstructed; Izanami's partially-justified revenge against Lucifer goes ''way'' overboard, to the point where it unnecessarily ruins countless lives, including her own.]]
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* TheDogBitesBack: Played with. It's Izanami's reason for getting revenge against Lucifer... but it was a fight ''she'' started to begin with.[[spoiler: It's [[spoiler:It's also deconstructed; Izanami's partially-justified revenge against Lucifer goes ''way'' overboard, to the point where it unnecessarily ruins countless lives, including her own.]]
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->''"Perhaps this is the ultimate freedom, eh, [[ComicBook/TheSandman Dream Lord]]? The freedom to leave..."''
-->-- '''Lucifer'''
The only spin-off from ''ComicBook/TheSandman'' to not only manage long-term success but also become a critically acclaimed comic in its own right, ''Lucifer'' followed the life and times of the eponymous fallen angel after he gave up being the Lord of Hell to run a piano bar in Los Angeles. After accepting a commission from God to deal with something that threatens humanity, he finds himself the owner of his very own universe. There follows an epic adventure in which Lucifer fights to escape the control of his father, God, while dozens of other parties unveil their own macabre plans.
Lucifer himself is an arrogant sociopath with a dry wit, who -- with a very few exceptions -- cares only for himself and his mission and will kill or ''severely'' inconvenience anyone who is stupid enough to get in his way. Despite popular conceptions of the devil, [[ManOfWealthAndTaste or perhaps playing them quite straight]], he is a handsome, suave man who makes a point of never lying ([[ExactWords not that it means much]]) and always pays back what he owes. He has never tempted anyone into committing sins and indeed seems to find it slightly depressing when they live down to his expectations.
Along the way the comic picks up a recurring cast of about 12 other characters, including Jill Presto, a stage magician who makes a dangerous pact; Gaudium, a cigar-chomping former cherub; Elaine Belloc, an English schoolgirl with unusual powers, and Christopher Rudd, a damned soul who becomes the plaything of a cruel demoness.
Lucifer first appeared in ''The Sandman'' #4 (April, 1989). He also had guest appearances in ComicBook/TheBooksOfMagic, and titles featuring ComicBook/TheSpectre and ComicBook/{{Etrigan}}. He received his own mini-series ''The Sandman Presents: Lucifer'' (March-May, 1999) and then graduated to an ongoing series, which lasted for 75 issues (June, 2000-August, 2006). Both the mini and the ongoing were written by Creator/MikeCarey. A variety of illustrators worked on the titles, but the most important are Peter Gross and Ryan Kelly.
A sequel to the comic book series (written by Creator/HollyBlack) was released on December 2015, starring the eponymous character and his brother, Gabriel.
[[Series/Lucifer2016 Lucifer got a series on FOX in 2016]], with Tom Ellis playing the character. Like the comics, it focuses on him as he decides to leave the literal Hell for Los Angeles, aka Hell on Earth. There, he runs a very popular nightclub while also doing [[DealWithTheDevil "favors"]] for various people. When a singer with a promising career he helped start is gunned down in front of him, he finds himself with an urge for punishing sinners once again, and he strikes up an unusual partnership with a local homicide detective.
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!!''Lucifer'' provides examples of:
* AbhorrentAdmirer: Scoria to Mazikeen, and Spera to just about anything vaguely male. Also, Jill's stalker.
* AbominationAccusationAttack: In the first issue, a young woman gets angry with the protagonist when he doesn't stop her from touching some wet paint, explaining only afterwards that it's actually blood. In retaliation, she threatens to call the cops and claim that he's a pedophile who has kidnapped her.
* AbsurdlyLongStairway: The angel Meleos keeps a copy of every written work humankind has ever produced. The archives are in an "underground tower more than a mile high," concealed beneath the Hamburg bookshop he manages. At the very bottom he keeps his own creation, a living [[TarotMotifs tarot deck]], which has become corrupt and extremely dangerous, such that when he tries to destroy the cards, they overpower him and escape. Too weak after the battle to manifest his wings, he must climb the staircase by foot.
* AbusiveParents: Lilith takes this to the extreme. A case can also be made for [[spoiler:Yahweh.]]
* ActionGirl[=/=]DarkActionGirl: Mazikeen.
* AffablyEvil: Lord Arux is a demon and owns the largest production plant of Pain in Hell, extracting the pain of the damned for the demons' pleasure. He is also generally tolerant, polite and a voice of reason, and is on general good terms with Lucifer.
* AkashicRecords: The artificer Scoria's [[spoiler:pool where the thoughts of God flow and can be seen]] probably counts. Also the Aleph.
* AllMythsAreTrue
* AlwaysChaoticEvil: Quite a few characters, notably Fenris and his {{Trickster}} companions Abonsam and Bet Jogie, are cruel, destructive and dishonest simply because it's what they ''are.'' Who expects embodiments of cruelty, destruction and dishonesty to be otherwise?
* AmbiguousGender: Innocence (the Child) of the Basanos, and its [[TheDragon dragon]] Death of the Basanos, are explicitly referred to in the text as female and male, respectively. The Basanos as a whole however are referred to with male descriptors, such as ''brother'' or ''father''.
* AmbiguouslyBrown: "The woman and the man," the first two lifeforms Lucifer creates in his universe. {{Justified|Trope}} in that they're only loosely "human" and are not meant to correspond to any Earthly race or nationality.
* AnotherDimension: The characters run into several along the way.
* ApocalypseHow: They come in groups, escalating from Class Z to Z-2 to Z-3, ultimately threatening the existence of all creation''s''.
* ArcWords: Some variety of "Normal service has resumed" or "Normal service will resume" appears once per arc.
* AristocratsAreEvil: Inverted: the demons of Hell aren't evil because they are aristocrats, they are ''pretending'' to be aristocrats because they are evil, and it's fashionable.
* ArtificialLimbs: [[spoiler:Jill Presto's metal hand.]]
* AscendToAHigherPlaneOfExistence: [[spoiler:Elaine Belloc, deciding to run the universe from the inside out, rather than from the top down like the last god did.]]
* TheAtoner: Rudd's character arc has him starting out as this, and then going very strange places. [[spoiler:Meleos]] gets this one twice over, the second time to make up for how he resolved the first. And then there's [[spoiler: Karl]].
%% * BadassBookworm: Meleos.
* BarbieDollAnatomy: All of the angels. They seem to also have a variable nudity taboo, not that it really matters anyway, since they're all (in effect) wearing flesh-colored superhero leotards. The implied reason for their lack of genitalia is the fact that, per the archangel Gabriel, the Angelic Host does not create, which presumably includes procreation. Half-angel Cal is also mentioned as being without genitalia. Perdissa has breasts, but like her male fellows, she has no nipples. Angel anatomy is essentially decorative.
** In the finale, Spera asks Mazikeen how she had sex with Lucifer despite his lack of genitals. Mazikeen [[TheUnReveal leans in and whispers the answer.]] Spera is shocked speechless.
** Lilith also managed to have sex with Ibriel and Sandalphon (and to conceive, because God made her supernaturally fertile).
** Near the end, [[spoiler:Izanami has sex with Lucifer]], despite the apparent lack of equipment.
* TheBaroness: Mazikeen verges on this, as does her mother. Lys also has shades of this.
* BecomingTheMask: [[spoiler:Cestis, after she is resurrected by the Basanos and eats Elaine's adoptive father.]] She's ''not happy''.
* BewareTheSillyOnes: The Titan Brothers.
* BigScrewedUpFamily: The Lilim. More metaphorically, the angels, fallen ''and'' otherwise. Also a number of smaller DysfunctionalFamily units, human and otherwise. In fact, not very many happy, functional ones exist within the comics.
* {{Bishonen}}: Most of the angels, including Lucifer.
* BiTheWay: [[spoiler:Mazikeen and Beatrice.]] Also Lys: "A man, I think. I'm still in the mood for a man."
* BittersweetEnding [[spoiler:Everyone pretty much gets a happy ending, except Lucifer, who can never have the one thing he truly wants, so he disappears into oblivion. Whether he just separates himself from everything or destroyed himself is up to the reader. Elaine Belloc doesn't end any happier, she has to cut ties with everyone including her best friend and fellow goddess, and gives everyone something they want (but not necessarily what they want the most), giving the entire cast a BittersweetEnding.]]
* BlackMagic: Mazikeen utilizes this at least once.
* BlessedWithSuck: Briadach. Also, [[spoiler:Jill]], by choice (sort of), and [[spoiler:Elaine]], not by choice.
* BrainsAndBondage: Lady Lys.
* BreakTheHaughty: Jill Presto, Lady Lys, Archon Michael - if you're at all a haughty character in this story, you're going to have the opportunity to learn humility at some point. Even Lucifer takes a few knocks.
* BrickJoke: During ''The Morningstar Option'', Lucifer pays Pharamond 240 copper aes in a bag and offers to let him count them to ensure that the devil isn't lying to him. Pharamond declines, stating he trusts Lucifer. Later, during ''The House Of Windowless Rooms, Pt. 1'', Pharamond and [[ComicBook/{{Hellblazer}} John Constantine]] are talking in Lucifer's bar and as Pharamond leaves, Constantine advises him;
--> "Don't take any wooden aes."
* BroughtDownToNormal: [[spoiler:Elaine]] uses her new godly powers to turn [[spoiler:Noema]] into a fully human child.
* ByronicHero: Lucifer, unsurprisingly.
* CallingTheOldManOut: Lucifer (and eventually also [[spoiler:Michael]]) to Yahveh is a main theme. There's a lot of it around generally though: Jill and [[spoiler:Mazikeen and Briadach]] to their mothers, Elaine to her [[spoiler:adoptive]] parents, the Basanos to Meleos, Jayesh to his shopkeeper dad... Gathering enough willpower and personal experience to acknowledge the flaws in one's parents/progenitors is a very prominent theme in the series.
** Interestingly, Yahweh seems to be actively ''trying'' to get this reaction out of His sons.
* CameBackWrong: In his first appearance, Tsukiyomi is a polite, romantic poet and ExtremeDoormat who delights in showing Lucifer the wonders of his mother's palace. After his death and reappearance in the Mansions of the Silence, he takes the form of a spindly spider-thing with a markedly different [[WouldHurtAChild demeanour]].
* ChangelingFantasy: [[spoiler:Elaine Belloc's true father is the archangel Michael.]]
* CharacterDevelopment: A lot, but perhaps most notably Mazikeen, Elaine and Rudd.
** Part of Lucifer's infamous pride is his refusal to develop in any way. He still ends up a somewhat different character at the end than he was at the beginning.
* TheChessmaster: As for ManipulativeBastard, plus Briadach. (Though he's something of a ManipulativeBastard too, in his way.)
* ChekhovsGunman: The Jin en Mok Saul runs into another of his kind and demands to know whether it's Berim or Cestis (it's Cestis). They then try to end the world, but fail. Berim shows up much later, along with a better world-ending plan.
* ChivalrousPervert: Bergelmir. And arguably Coyote. Apparently [[spoiler:Jill]] brings this out in people.
* CombatTentacles: Susano-ono-mikoto deploys these against the Lilim as one of his greater attacks.
* ContinuityNod: Appearances by [[ComicBook/{{Hellblazer}} John Constantine]] and various characters from ''ComicBook/TheSandman''.
** Likewise the appearance of The Source.
* CouncilOfAngels
* CreativeSterility: Most angels.
* CreepyChild: Innocence (AKA the Child) of the Basanos.
* CrossoverCosmology: Appearances by Norse gods, Japanese gods, various mythological creatures and so on.
* CurbstompBattle: A common mortal pimp threatens one of the children of Lilith herself, whose father was a powerful demon. It ends badly for him. Very quickly.
* CursedWithAwesome: Jill gets possessed by the Basanos, and while they give her powers and such if she obeys them, they give her ''a lot'' of crap if she doesn't.
** Subverted with Erishad. Her gods cursed her with immortality, complete with immunity to aging and injury. Sounds awesome, right?
-->'''Erishad:''' Every morning my body forgets all wounds, all hurts. And makes itself again exactly as it was when the gods first cursed me. I have had the same miscarriage every day for four thousand years.
* DarkActionGirl: Mazikeen again, and also Zim'et.
* DeadpanSnarker: Lucifer, Gaudium and Spera. Occasionally, though, even Elaine, Mazikeen, Remiel and Amenadiel get in on the act.
* DebtDetester: Lucifer, to no-one's surprise, despises the idea of being dependent on anybody and makes a point of honour to pay everything back. [[spoiler:The ending implies he resents God for having created him in the first place, since it means he's dependent on someone else for existing.]]
* DeityOfHumanOrigin: Mona Doyle eventually becomes a Goddess. [[spoiler:So does Elaine Belloc, but Elaine was never fully human.]]
* DemonOfHumanOrigin: Christopher Rudd ascends from being one of the damned to [[spoiler:a member of hell's nobility, then a mystic sage preaching salvation in hell itself, to finally leading an army of the damned against Heaven.]]
* DestructiveRomance: Lady Lys' spirit gets permanently broken by her mortal lover Cristopher Rudd. And you thought a romance between a demon and a human would be bad for the ''human''?
* DidYouJustFlipOffCthulhu: With the alignment flipped. Mazikeen, in the Silver City, surrounded by the assembled hosts of heaven. Passion is blasphemy, and she has a powerful need to blaspheme. So she [[TakeThatKiss kisses Beatrice, passionately, while giving the angels the finger]]. Also Lilith, who slapped [[spoiler:Yahweh]] in the face!
* DisproportionateRetribution:
** Saul of the Jin en Mok was distracted by a janitor in a diner and lost his train of thought. So he gave the kid [[ArtifactOfDeath a hypnotic coin]] that causes the possessor to stare at it a little more each day causing them increasing levels of pleasure and pain until eventually they wither and die. Because that's just the kind of guy he is.
** Lucifer himself is prone to these if someone crosses him. He destroys the life work of the angel Melos, thousands of years of effort, for disobeying him.
* DistractedFromDeath: A sideplot in the third volume has an example. A pair of human friends (later lovers) run away from home and sneak into Lucifer's home in Los Angeles. Because it's not a natural place, they wind up wandering it for days without food or water. At one point, the guy wakes up and, without realizing that the girl is dead, tells her to rest while he searches for help.
* DivinelyAppearingDemons: Lucifer is depicted as a handsome man with golden wings, and is consistently shown as one of, if not the, most attractive of all the angels.
* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: Invoked by Lucifer. "You are the man and the woman. This is the garden."
* DramaPreservingHandicap: Lucifer is one of the most powerful beings in existence, probably exceeded only by God and rivalled only by Michael, but he's usually operating under some limitation that prevents him from simply destroying whatever's in his way.
* DreamSpying
* EarthIsYoung: The first albums manage to avert this trope, in spite of being based on creationism. And also in spite of the ''Lucifer'' comic being a spin-off from ''Sandman''. ''This'' version of the setting make it unambiguous that biblical events took place billions of years ago. Later albums kinda throw the concept of linear/objective time out of the window, returning us to the postmodernism of ''Sandman''.
* EldritchAbomination:
** The Jin en Mok and the Silk Man. Okay, ''you'' watch them eat if you don't believe me. They're stated to be leftover beings from a previous version of the universe who want to get out of this one and start their own using Lucifer's gate.
** The angels, demons and Yahweh Himself seem more like this than their usual portrayals. They're just prettier.
* EverythingsBetterWithPrincesses: Elaine Belloc, granddaughter [[spoiler:and heir]] to the king of the very universe: Yahweh Himself!
* EvilMatriarch: Izanami and Lilith. They pull this off in different ways, with Izanami clearly caring very much for her children, while Lilith obviously doesn't care for anyone except herself.
* ExpositionOfImmortality: Given the characters are variously gods, goddesses, angels, demons and other [[TimeAbyss time sinks]], this tends to happen fairly regularly. Lucifer goes down back to Hell during the ''The Morningstar Option'' and has an expositionary, though one-sided, chat with Duma about the times before the creation of man; Meleos remembers creating the Basanos and Lucifer coming to pose for the Lightbringer card and Sandalphon reminisces about the War In Heaven and how he came to collect the Archangel Michael.
* ExpositoryHairstyleChange: Lucifer's hair changes from blond to red as his character darkens. Although that might be a result of messed-up colouring and many different artists in the comics, seeing as his hair has run the gamut from white-blond to straw-blond to strawberry-red to true red to to orange to reddish-black. The hair curls that resemble horns don't remain consistent throughout the comic's run, either.
** The change seems to be actual and physical, since after he [[spoiler: gets his wings back from Izanami]] his hair goes strawberry-blond when he manifests them, but he goes back to the bleach-blond-with-dark-eyebrows look once he hides them again.
* FanServicePack: [[spoiler:Elaine, after becoming a god in Lucifer's realm (and maybe "growing up" in centuries as a spirit),]] and [[spoiler:Mazikeen after the other half of her face is restored]]. And [[spoiler:Izanami]], in her later appearance.
** Lys is an [[InvertedTrope inversion]]. She's introduced as a pure MsFanservice, [[EvilIsSexy hot and frequently naked]]. But after [[spoiler:Rudd poisons her with the ability to feel guilt]], she looks gaunt and dresses much more demurely.
* FantasyCounterpartCulture: Justified; certain parts of Hell styled themselves after Renaissance Europe for fashion reasons.
* FauxAffablyEvil: Berim and Cestis.
* FemmeFatale: Lys. [[spoiler:Izanami has shades of this in her last appearance.]]
* FetusTerrible: Erishad's baby, and also [[spoiler:Eikon]] and [[spoiler:Noema]]
* AFormYouAreComfortableWith: [[spoiler:Yahweh]] tries several on when talking to [[spoiler:Elaine]], but she's not all that comfortable with any of them.
* FullFrontalAssault: Lucifer has a tendency to this. It's [[ArmorIsUseless usually]] but [[FanService not always]] given ''some'' kind of plot reason. (But see also BarbieDollAnatomy, above.)
* GambitPileup: Happens a lot. It's not really surprising, given the density of {{Manipulative Bastard}}s.
* GeniusBruiser: Just because Lucifer is primarily a MagnificentBastard, doesn't mean he can't hold his own. In fact, his method of ''bruising'' involves using the same power that ignited all the stars in the universe.
* GeniusLoci: The Barrowjane.
* {{God}}
* GodAndSatanAreBothJerks: In their own, morally grey way, ultimately neither God or Lucifer have much regard for anything but themselves.
* GodIsFlawed: In this setting, all creators are very flawed. Lucifer himself neglects to construct a proper afterlife, Elaine tries and fails to keep her humans from killing each other in her name, and let's not even get started on Yahweh Himself.
* GondorCallsForAid: In "Morningstar".
* HeartTrauma: The duel between Lucifer and Amenadiel in Effrul.
* HeelRealization: A lot. Sometimes it helps (a bit), sometimes it ''really'' doesn't, and sometimes, ([[spoiler:as in the case of Solomon,]]) it's more of an IgnoredEpiphany.
* HellHasNewManagement: Christopher Rudd manages to go from damned soul to sextoy for the nobility of Hell into one of the nobility himself and eventually ruler of Hell.
* HellInvadesHeaven
* HeteronormativeCrusader: One side character starts out as a ArmoredClosetGay Neo-Nazi who beat an Indian man almost to death for flirting with him, at the urging of some "friends". [[spoiler:The man gets disabled for life, but they end up as lovers anyway - once the first guy realized that ThoseWackyNazis wasn't such a good crowd to hang out with after all.]]
* HeterosexualLifePartners: Elaine and Mona.
* HistoryRepeats: Lucifer burns out [[spoiler:Meleos' eyes in order to prevent him from remaking the Basanos]] in order to avert this trope.
* HoldingBackThePhlebotinum: Lucifer, for all intents and purposes, his powers and abilities are beyond SuperPowerLottery, but the series is not mainly about physical combat and certainly that's not Lucifer's preferred way to get what he wants. Also, it is made clear that in certain realms Lucifer has to abide to their law; so you won't get to see Lucifer going {{ComicBook/Darkseid}} and annihilating other [[PhysicalGod Physical Gods]] with his might.
* HolierThanThou: Amenadiel takes this UpToEleven, as do several other angels.
* HoneyTrap: Musubi attempts this with Lucifer (and, naturally, fails). Cestis is also hinted to have pulled this in the past.
* ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice ([[spoiler:Sandalphon.]])
* InformedAbility: The reader will spend more time running off to ''ComicBook/TheSandman'' and reading footnotes in Lucifer's own series about his SuperPowerLottery and StoryBreakerPower stats than actually see them, or rather the vast majority, in action.
* InspectorJavert: Solomon, [[spoiler:but he doesn't limit himself to just one target]].
* IntellectualAnimal: Lord Arux's "pet", Prackspoor.
* ItsAllAboutMe: Lucifer isn't very verbal about it, but it's fairly obvious that he never does anything for any other reasons than his own.
* JourneyToFindOneself: In "All We Need of Hell".
* KickTheDog: Numerous occurrences. Often by Lucifer himself.
** KickTheSonOfABitch: On the other hand, it's rather hard to feel badly for some of Lucifer's victims, such as a crass truck driver (that Lucifer curses with impotence), Kagutsuchi (who is implied to have raped Musubi in the past and unjustly attacks Lucifer when the latter goes to get his wings back), and Amenadiel.
* KnightTemplar: Several of the angels, such as Amenadiel, Perdissa (who crosses it with elements of {{Yandere}}), and [[LawfulStupid Gabriel]], in the backstory. And Remiel, of course. Ibriel also pulls this [[spoiler:on Lilith. It doesn't end particularly well for him.]]
* LemonyNarrator: Briadach, Unagor and Gaudium.
* LightIsNotGood: Beside his appearance, Lucifer also likes [[KillItWithFire fire as a weapon]], and literally, his name means "light wielder". His purpose was, originally, to kindle the stars at creation's beginning.
* LittleMissAlmighty: [[spoiler:Elaine at the conclusion, having assumed God's mantle.]]
* LookMaNoPlane: Gaudium uses this technique to get from London to New York.
* {{Mangst}}: Christopher Rudd, so very much.
* ManipulativeBastard: As for MagnificentBastard under YMMV, but also the Basanos, Sandalphon, Berim, the Silk Man, and a number of other characters, including Briadach.
* MeleeATrois: Between factions led by Lucifer, Lilith and Rudd, in ''Morningstar''.
* MisaimedFandom: In-universe example with Elaine's early attitude to Lucifer, according to her jealous fathers Michael and David.
* MisterSeahorse: The archangel Michael is used as the (giant-sized) incubator for the "army of archangels" in the second book. It doesn't work out according to plan, however - it's stated that [[spoiler:all the children born were mentally and/or physically impaired, and only Elaine Belloc was a successful attempt]].
* MsFanservice: Jill, which can get kinda {{Squick}}y considering all the awful things she goes through.
* MuggleFosterParents: [[spoiler:The Bellocs to Elaine.]]
* MultiArmedAndDangerous: One of the assassins sent to dispatch Lucifer in "Inferno".
** Musubi of the Shiko-Me from ''The House of Windowless Rooms'' also qualifies.
* MyRuleFuIsStrongerThanYours: Lucifer constantly contends with gods, demons, and angels of incredible power, and is frequently at an apparent disadvantage when doing so. But ''all'' of them (except God) have to operate within certain rules, and Lucifer ''always'' knows how to turn those rules to his advantage.
* TheNeidermeyer [[InSpace IN HELL!]]: Remiel.
* NiceGuy: Michael. This serves him about as well as you'd expect in context.
* NighInvulnerability: Many, if not all, of the angels have this to some extent.
* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: Lucifer is explicitly based on Music/DavidBowie.
* OmnicidalManiac: Fenris. He does personify destruction - but he's rather more proactive than one would hope.
* TheOmniscient: Yahweh. Obviously. Everything that happens and ever will happen from the dawn of time through the first half of the series, including all of Lucifer's efforts to escape The Plan, were part of The Plan. Lucifer's rebellion and the War in Heaven, his rulership of Hell, abdication of Hell, and creating a new universe - all God's Divine Plan. This becomes a plot point in the second half of the series when God deliberately withdraws His will from the universe and turns a blind eye, allowing the possibility of an outcome He ''won't'' always have known. It was the only way He could allow something He could not predict to occur. Even then, He still guessed much of it correctly in almost every detail.
* OurAngelsAreDifferent: A lot.
* PerpetualFrowner: In contrast to his earlier appearance in ''ComicNook/TheSandman'', Lucifer never smiles or laughs. In fact, one could go so far as to say he only expresses two emotions: perpetual annoyance and brief flashes of pure rage.
* PluckyComicRelief: Gaudium and Spera.
* PosthumousCharacter: Given that the afterlife in this series appears to have a revolving door, more than you'd think and livelier than you'd think.
* PowerOfTheVoid
* {{Psychopomp}}: Lucifer, self-announced as one during ''The House of Windowless Rooms'' arc.
* RaceLift: A weird, meta version; Rachel Begai and her family appear to be entirely white in the first issue, despite being Native American (full-blooded in the case of Rachel's father and half in the case of Rachel and Paul). Later issues fix this.
* RageAgainstTheHeavens: The title character's major motivation: to achieve something outside his Father's Divine Plan.
* RapeAsDrama: [[spoiler: Jill suffers rape at the hands of the Basanos.]] Rachel Begai [[spoiler:and Mazikeen]] also suffer a NearRapeExperience.
* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: Poor Uriel. He's just trying to hold the Host together while Lucifer, Michael and Yahweh play out their grand drama. It's after he dies that they really start to fall apart. Notable for being polite to Mazikeen (a demon, remember) when she offers aid.
* TheResenter: The Lilim have this as their [[PlanetOfHats hat]], the exceptions being Briadoch and Mazikeen.
* {{Retcon}}: Lucifer states in ''ComicBook/TheSandman'' that he lost none of his powers when he abdicated his leadership of Hell. In his own series, though, recovering his wings (and his full power) becomes an important plot point.
* RightHandCat: Prackspoor to Lord Arux.
* {{Satan}}: Subverts almost every traditional 'devil' concept.
* ScrewDestiny: Lucifer tries to one-up Destiny of the Endless, first by trying to bet he'll be able to do something Destiny cannot predict (which Destiny doesn't rise to), and then by ripping pages from Destiny's book and burning them, claiming Destiny is now as much in the dark as he. [[spoiler:Except the ashes turn out to tell him exactly what will happen, allowing Destiny to [[LoopholeAbuse bend his own rules never to read aloud from his book]] ''and'' show Lucifer there's nothing he doesn't foresee. Judging by his words, Lucifer is forced to concede.]]
* SelfInflictedHell: Every one of the damned in hell is this to some extent. [[spoiler:Lucifer arguably ends up with one of his own in the end.]]
* SelfServingMemory: In the final issue Lucifer has a flashback to his discussion with Morpheus back in ''ComicBook/TheSandman''. While in the original storyline Lucifer is presented as extremely emotive and passionate, laughing and expressing visible anger at the folly of mortals, in the flashback he seems just as stoic as he has been for the rest of the comic.
* ShoutOut: John Constantine is amongst the gathered parties come to the Lux to discuss [[spoiler:the portal created by]] Lucifer. Gains extra points since Constantine was one of the DC Verse characters used in the early issues of ''ComicBook/TheSandman'' to connect it to DC's wider world and Creator/MikeCarey wrote a lot of Hellblazer.
* SiblingRivalry: The Lilim, and also Lucifer/Michael (though seeing the designated two most powerful creatures in being squabble like kids has a certain charm) and the host in general. Also, for comic relief version, Gaudium, Spera and Lumen.
* SiblingYinYang: Lucifer and Michael.
* SilentBob: [[spoiler:Duma.]]
* SlasherSmile: Mazikeen has a memorable one.
* SlouchOfVillainy: Lucifer pulls this to provoke Michael, who is additionally annoyed at the transparency of the ploy.
* SmugSnake: Sandalphon, so very much. Also [[spoiler:Amenadiel]], literally and for a short while.
* TheSociopath: Quite a few characters, including the title character.
* StalkerWithATestTube: [[spoiler:Izanami to Lucifer at the end of the series is a version of this - and it works, but we don't see that until the sequel. She also decides to reinvent herself after.]]
* StopWorshippingMe: [[spoiler:Lucifer in his version of Creation.]]
* SunnydaleSyndrome: Played with and semi-subverted in terms of how far the more incidental humans (etc.) around the main cast seem to have any idea what's going on. After a while they just seem to sort of roll with it.
** "Normal consciousness will be resumed."
* SuperEmpowering
* SuperPowerLottery:
** To spare some space, just take the popular belief of {{God}}, and make it a bit less powerful, and in a fairly literal sense you have both Lucifer and Michael; however, given the series is not about {{Physical God}}s going at each other throats Franchise/{{Superman}} vs. ComicBook/{{Darkseid}} style, the reader [[HoldingBackThePhlebotinum rarely sees more than]] Lucifer boasting, exercising his infinite will and a certain degree of omnipotence and omniscience during the series' run. There are ''some'' glimpses of Lucifer's might; they're memorable. However, he prefers to rely on careful preparation and manipulation, not least because obliterating foes with infinitely-kindled primordial fire lacks a certain style. Mind you, that "certain degree" of omniscience and omnipotence includes ''creating a new multiverse''. Also, he ''breaks'' an afterlife just by visiting it.
** God's role in the story is defined by the fact that He is totally unassailable physically, instantly knows everything that's going on, and is several leagues above even Lucifer in raw intelligence.
* TakeAThirdOption: Repeated plot point.
* TakenForGranite: Izanami initially appears as a giant rock statue, though it seems her not speaking or moving much is by choice.
* TarotMotifs: The Basanos, who also provide a TarotTroubles reading for Lucifer in the original mini-series.
* TemptingFate: Quite a few characters, including the title character, get into this occasionally.
* ToHellAndBack: Though, being the former Lord of Hell, this isn't anything unusual for Lucifer.
* ToHellWithThisInfernalJob: In the backstory.
* TookALevelInCheerfulness: Lucifer's personality lightens up after the time skip.
* TotallyEighteen: Passionately averted with the female protagonist Elaine. At the beginning of the story she is twelve years old, and as she grow up her age is never mentioned again. She gradually and seamlessly transitions from childhood to becoming a TimeAbyss.
* TwistedEucharist: The great wolf Fenris escaped his imprisonment and hatched a long-term plan to conserve his energies for the end of the world. He staged a reconciliation dinner for his enemies, the Aesir, and tricked them into eating pieces of his own flesh and drinking his blood, thereby storing his memories and powers in godly vessels. In present times, he allies himself with a group of other entropy gods to hunt down all of those who partook in his flesh and devour them. He even force-feeds a weakened Lucifer a bit of his own blood to drive him into a murderous frenzy, killing his own brother Michael, feeding Yggdrasil his fallen blood and essentially securing the destruction of the universe
* TheUnintelligible: Mazikeen. [[spoiler:She got better when Jill healed her and forced symmetry on Mazikeen's original partially-skinless face, but she is not happy about it by any means.]]
* TheUnreveal: In "Eve", Spera asks Mazikeen how she and Lucifer had sex, given his BarbieDollAnatomy. [[spoiler:Mazikeen whispers in her ear, and Spera looks shocked, in a good way. That's it.]]
* UnwittingPawn: Poor Charlie, Erishad, Jill, and poor Mr. Easterman. [[spoiler:Arguably repeatedly, too. Elaine and Michael may also count. And Lucifer himself, relative to God - though anyone would be relative to ''God''. As the Almighty Himself points out, everything Lucifer knows he learned from his Father.]]
* TheVamp: Lady Lys [[spoiler:initially]]; Bet Jogie, who has the description "The woman who is both beautiful and terrible." In fact, she personifies the concept.
* VillainousBreakdown: Quite a few, including one from Remiel that reminds you he's actually quite powerful, emotionally unbalanced {{Scrappy}} that he is.
** [[spoiler:Lilith]] has one that's also a TearJerker ''and'' a HeelRealization. [[spoiler:''I was never cruel, before I loved...'']]
* VillainProtagonist: As a back cover blurb puts it, this is a story about the forces of good, evil and beyond evil.
* VillainsNeverLie: Lucifer. Keeping promises and repaying debts is one of the few traditional virtues he's a stickler about maintaining.
-->"...When the devil wants to get something out of you, he doesn't lie at all. He tells you the exact, literal truth. And he lets you find your own way to hell."
* VillainTeamUp: In "Morningstar".
* WickedCultured: Lucifer, obviously, but also Lys, Sandalphon, Berim...
* WindmillCrusader: We have the political faction "Efferul for Lucifer" that fights on the Morningstar's behalf. He is ''not'' amused, as their agenda is based on a very misguided vision of what he wants and needs.
* WiseBeyondTheirYears: Elaine Belloc.
* {{Wishplosion}}: The velleity in "The Morningstar Option".
* TheWorfEffect: If Mazikeen is getting the crap kicked out of her, it's time to panic. Unfortunately, Mazikeen is ''always'' getting the crap kicked out of her.
** You mean before she recovers and kicks the crap out of them.
* WorldOfCardboardSpeech: Several, not surprisingly given the power levels of some of the characters.
* TheWorldTree: Yggdrasil, in "The Wolf Beneath the Tree".
* WorthyOpponent: Judging by how he treats him compared to practically everyone else, Lucifer appears to hold a great deal of respect for Duma. Or maybe it's simply because there's no sport in trying to verbally provoke someone who never talks back.
* WouldBeRudeToSayGenocide: In ''Mansions of the Silence'', Lucifer annihilates billions of souls as a side effect of saving the life of one single person. (That one person was someone he owed a favor, his billions of victims were not.) Of all the people who witness this tragedy, only Bergelmir says anything about this action being immoral, and even he is quite polite about it. Even so, everyone else simply ignores him as they would a person who's being generally rude, impolite and socially inappropriate.
** Elsewhere in the series it is mentioned that it's impossible to destroy a soul; one can only unravel it so that it will take a millennia to reform. Considering that the Mansions of the Silence are in some ways worse than Hell, Lucifer's actions don't come off quite as bad.
** Also, who in their right mind would start lecturing at Lucifer, under the circumstances?
* YearInsideHourOutside: Lucifer's universe runs much faster than God's, something that plays into the plot several times. The difference in the passage of time seems to change from story to story, however.
* YouAreWhoYouEat: The Jin En Mok demons Cestis and Saul. This is usually just a disguise, but to her horror, it ends up being a [[TheMindIsAPlayThingOfTheBody literal example]] for Cestis.
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!! ''Lucifer (2015)'' contains examples of:
* AbusiveParents: Medjine's adoptive family treats her like utter crap. [[spoiler:A case can also be made for Izanami, who pretty much had Takehiko raised for the sole purpose of killing Lucifer.]]
* AllergicToEvil: [[spoiler:God, which is how Lucifer kills him.]]
* AntagonisticOffspring: Takehiko, the son of Izanami [[spoiler: and Lucifer Morningstar, whom he intends to kill.]]
* AntiVillain: Takehiko, who comes across more as a kid in over his head than an actual threat.
* BackFromTheDead: [[spoiler: Michael Demiurgos, who was killed by [[BrainwashedAndCrazy Lucifer]] in the original series. Unfortunately, because God's a mind-controlling OmnicidalManiac, it also crosses with CameBackWrong.]]
* BenevolentBoss: Lucifer treats his employees at Ex Lux well. Given that it's ''Lucifer'', though, he's definitely not above breaking out the snark.
* BigScrewedUpFamily: Takehiko gets this on ''both'' sides, being the son of [[EvilMatriarch Izanami]] [[spoiler:and Lucifer.]]
* BreakingTheFourthWall: [[spoiler:Elaine, who was the NarratorAllAlong.]]
* BrokenBird: Gabriel's time in Hell and the human world has not been kind to him.
* BodyHorror: Gabriel is obviously missing his heart, and Lucifer has a constantly bleeding wound on his side.
* CameBackWrong: [[spoiler:God, who comes back as an OmnicidalManiac.]]
* ClosetKey: Raphael decides to seek comfort from [[spoiler: runaway Lorin Hammon.]]
* CruelMercy: [[spoiler:Rather than kill Takehiko and Izanami, Mazikeen sentences them to be sealed inside the House of Windowless Rooms for eternity.]]
* DespairEventHorizon: Gabriel's since crossed it after being exiled from heaven thanks to Constantine. [[spoiler: It saves him from being mind-controlled by God.]]
* EvenEvilHasStandards: Lucifer's a fan of all kinds of sins, except for those that interfere with free will.
* FreakOut: [[spoiler:Raphael, upon hearing a secret from Metatron, has one of these and kills him.]]
* GodIsDead: The question is by who and how? [[spoiler: ''He'' did, with the involuntary help of Gabriel.]]
* TheHighQueen: Mazikeen became this in Hell. She's still very much capable of being an ActionGirl, however.
* LateArrivalSpoiler: The new series naturally comes with the assumption that readers are familiar with the original. As a result, major spoilers from the first series are treated as common knowledge.
* OhCrap: [[spoiler: "Free will. That bastard is taking away our free will."]] Also counts as OOCIsSeriousBusiness, as it's [[spoiler:the normally unshakeable Lucifer who says this.]]
* PsychicAssistedSuicide: [[spoiler: How God forced Gabriel to kill him.]] Gabriel doesn't take it well.
* RapeIsASpecialKindOfEvil: Lucifer is staunchly unimpressed with a would-be rapist who slipped a roofie into a woman's drink at his club. He ends up tossing the guy into a star that was named after him as a Christmas present to one of his workers.
* RedOniBlueOni: Gabriel is the red, Lucifer is [[TheChessmaster (naturally)]] the blue.
* RevengeBeforeReason: Izanami. Not only does she [[spoiler:raise her son to take revenge on his own father, but when God is planning ''omnicide'', she keeps the former as her primary aim, rather than setting her goals aside for the moment. Not to mention that she doesn't even ''try'' to rescue Takehiko or find out if he's alive.]]
* ShootTheMessenger: Mazikeen, to one of Takehiko's (who proposes ''marriage'' on his behalf).
* SilkHidingSteel: Izanami, and she has the NervesOfSteel to back it up.
* TokenMinority: Of all the angels, there are maybe two black angels, [[spoiler:and a single gay one.]]
* TranquilFury: Lucifer shows this whenever he gets angry, most notably when Mazikeen gets injured, and when [[spoiler:he gets an eviction notice for his club.]]
* {{Transplant}}: From minor Hellblazer villain, Gabriel now co-stars with Lucifer in the sequel.
* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: [[spoiler:Medjine's abusive foster family never comes up again. Michael is a more egregious example.]]
* WhatTheHellHero: Lucifer gets called out on his selfish abandonment of creation, namely by [[spoiler:Mazikeen and Elaine.]]
* YoureNotMyFather: [[spoiler:Lucifer says this of what's apparently left of God.]]
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->''"Perhaps this is the ultimate freedom, eh, [[ComicBook/TheSandman Dream Lord]]? The freedom to leave..."''
-->-- '''Lucifer'''
The only spin-off from ''ComicBook/TheSandman'' to not only manage long-term success but also become a critically acclaimed comic in its own right, ''Lucifer'' followed the life and times of the eponymous fallen angel after he gave up being the Lord of Hell to run a piano bar in Los Angeles. After accepting a commission from God to deal with something that threatens humanity, he finds himself the owner of his very own universe. There follows an epic adventure in which Lucifer fights to escape the control of his father, God, while dozens of other parties unveil their own macabre plans.
Lucifer himself is an arrogant sociopath with a dry wit, who -- with a very few exceptions -- cares only for himself and his mission and will kill or ''severely'' inconvenience anyone who is stupid enough to get in his way. Despite popular conceptions of the devil, [[ManOfWealthAndTaste or perhaps playing them quite straight]], he is a handsome, suave man who makes a point of never lying ([[ExactWords not that it means much]]) and always pays back what he owes. He has never tempted anyone into committing sins and indeed seems to find it slightly depressing when they live down to his expectations.
Along the way the comic picks up a recurring cast of about 12 other characters, including Jill Presto, a stage magician who makes a dangerous pact; Gaudium, a cigar-chomping former cherub; Elaine Belloc, an English schoolgirl with unusual powers, and Christopher Rudd, a damned soul who becomes the plaything of a cruel demoness.
Lucifer first appeared in ''The Sandman'' #4 (April, 1989). He also had guest appearances in ComicBook/TheBooksOfMagic, and titles featuring ComicBook/TheSpectre and ComicBook/{{Etrigan}}. He received his own mini-series ''The Sandman Presents: Lucifer'' (March-May, 1999) and then graduated to an ongoing series, which lasted for 75 issues (June, 2000-August, 2006). Both the mini and the ongoing were written by Creator/MikeCarey. A variety of illustrators worked on the titles, but the most important are Peter Gross and Ryan Kelly.
A sequel to the comic book series (written by Creator/HollyBlack) was released on December 2015, starring the eponymous character and his brother, Gabriel.
[[Series/Lucifer2016 Lucifer got a series on FOX in 2016]], with Tom Ellis playing the character. Like the comics, it focuses on him as he decides to leave the literal Hell for Los Angeles, aka Hell on Earth. There, he runs a very popular nightclub while also doing [[DealWithTheDevil "favors"]] for various people. When a singer with a promising career he helped start is gunned down in front of him, he finds himself with an urge for punishing sinners once again, and he strikes up an unusual partnership with a local homicide detective.
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!!''Lucifer'' provides examples of:
* AbhorrentAdmirer: Scoria to Mazikeen, and Spera to just about anything vaguely male. Also, Jill's stalker.
* AbominationAccusationAttack: In the first issue, a young woman gets angry with the protagonist when he doesn't stop her from touching some wet paint, explaining only afterwards that it's actually blood. In retaliation, she threatens to call the cops and claim that he's a pedophile who has kidnapped her.
* AbsurdlyLongStairway: The angel Meleos keeps a copy of every written work humankind has ever produced. The archives are in an "underground tower more than a mile high," concealed beneath the Hamburg bookshop he manages. At the very bottom he keeps his own creation, a living [[TarotMotifs tarot deck]], which has become corrupt and extremely dangerous, such that when he tries to destroy the cards, they overpower him and escape. Too weak after the battle to manifest his wings, he must climb the staircase by foot.
* AbusiveParents: Lilith takes this to the extreme. A case can also be made for [[spoiler:Yahweh.]]
* ActionGirl[=/=]DarkActionGirl: Mazikeen.
* AffablyEvil: Lord Arux is a demon and owns the largest production plant of Pain in Hell, extracting the pain of the damned for the demons' pleasure. He is also generally tolerant, polite and a voice of reason, and is on general good terms with Lucifer.
* AkashicRecords: The artificer Scoria's [[spoiler:pool where the thoughts of God flow and can be seen]] probably counts. Also the Aleph.
* AllMythsAreTrue
* AlwaysChaoticEvil: Quite a few characters, notably Fenris and his {{Trickster}} companions Abonsam and Bet Jogie, are cruel, destructive and dishonest simply because it's what they ''are.'' Who expects embodiments of cruelty, destruction and dishonesty to be otherwise?
* AmbiguousGender: Innocence (the Child) of the Basanos, and its [[TheDragon dragon]] Death of the Basanos, are explicitly referred to in the text as female and male, respectively. The Basanos as a whole however are referred to with male descriptors, such as ''brother'' or ''father''.
* AmbiguouslyBrown: "The woman and the man," the first two lifeforms Lucifer creates in his universe. {{Justified|Trope}} in that they're only loosely "human" and are not meant to correspond to any Earthly race or nationality.
* AnotherDimension: The characters run into several along the way.
* ApocalypseHow: They come in groups, escalating from Class Z to Z-2 to Z-3, ultimately threatening the existence of all creation''s''.
* ArcWords: Some variety of "Normal service has resumed" or "Normal service will resume" appears once per arc.
* AristocratsAreEvil: Inverted: the demons of Hell aren't evil because they are aristocrats, they are ''pretending'' to be aristocrats because they are evil, and it's fashionable.
* ArtificialLimbs: [[spoiler:Jill Presto's metal hand.]]
* AscendToAHigherPlaneOfExistence: [[spoiler:Elaine Belloc, deciding to run the universe from the inside out, rather than from the top down like the last god did.]]
* TheAtoner: Rudd's character arc has him starting out as this, and then going very strange places. [[spoiler:Meleos]] gets this one twice over, the second time to make up for how he resolved the first. And then there's [[spoiler: Karl]].
%% * BadassBookworm: Meleos.
* BarbieDollAnatomy: All of the angels. They seem to also have a variable nudity taboo, not that it really matters anyway, since they're all (in effect) wearing flesh-colored superhero leotards. The implied reason for their lack of genitalia is the fact that, per the archangel Gabriel, the Angelic Host does not create, which presumably includes procreation. Half-angel Cal is also mentioned as being without genitalia. Perdissa has breasts, but like her male fellows, she has no nipples. Angel anatomy is essentially decorative.
** In the finale, Spera asks Mazikeen how she had sex with Lucifer despite his lack of genitals. Mazikeen [[TheUnReveal leans in and whispers the answer.]] Spera is shocked speechless.
** Lilith also managed to have sex with Ibriel and Sandalphon (and to conceive, because God made her supernaturally fertile).
** Near the end, [[spoiler:Izanami has sex with Lucifer]], despite the apparent lack of equipment.
* TheBaroness: Mazikeen verges on this, as does her mother. Lys also has shades of this.
* BecomingTheMask: [[spoiler:Cestis, after she is resurrected by the Basanos and eats Elaine's adoptive father.]] She's ''not happy''.
* BewareTheSillyOnes: The Titan Brothers.
* BigScrewedUpFamily: The Lilim. More metaphorically, the angels, fallen ''and'' otherwise. Also a number of smaller DysfunctionalFamily units, human and otherwise. In fact, not very many happy, functional ones exist within the comics.
* {{Bishonen}}: Most of the angels, including Lucifer.
* BiTheWay: [[spoiler:Mazikeen and Beatrice.]] Also Lys: "A man, I think. I'm still in the mood for a man."
* BittersweetEnding [[spoiler:Everyone pretty much gets a happy ending, except Lucifer, who can never have the one thing he truly wants, so he disappears into oblivion. Whether he just separates himself from everything or destroyed himself is up to the reader. Elaine Belloc doesn't end any happier, she has to cut ties with everyone including her best friend and fellow goddess, and gives everyone something they want (but not necessarily what they want the most), giving the entire cast a BittersweetEnding.]]
* BlackMagic: Mazikeen utilizes this at least once.
* BlessedWithSuck: Briadach. Also, [[spoiler:Jill]], by choice (sort of), and [[spoiler:Elaine]], not by choice.
* BrainsAndBondage: Lady Lys.
* BreakTheHaughty: Jill Presto, Lady Lys, Archon Michael - if you're at all a haughty character in this story, you're going to have the opportunity to learn humility at some point. Even Lucifer takes a few knocks.
* BrickJoke: During ''The Morningstar Option'', Lucifer pays Pharamond 240 copper aes in a bag and offers to let him count them to ensure that the devil isn't lying to him. Pharamond declines, stating he trusts Lucifer. Later, during ''The House Of Windowless Rooms, Pt. 1'', Pharamond and [[ComicBook/{{Hellblazer}} John Constantine]] are talking in Lucifer's bar and as Pharamond leaves, Constantine advises him;
--> "Don't take any wooden aes."
* BroughtDownToNormal: [[spoiler:Elaine]] uses her new godly powers to turn [[spoiler:Noema]] into a fully human child.
* ByronicHero: Lucifer, unsurprisingly.
* CallingTheOldManOut: Lucifer (and eventually also [[spoiler:Michael]]) to Yahveh is a main theme. There's a lot of it around generally though: Jill and [[spoiler:Mazikeen and Briadach]] to their mothers, Elaine to her [[spoiler:adoptive]] parents, the Basanos to Meleos, Jayesh to his shopkeeper dad... Gathering enough willpower and personal experience to acknowledge the flaws in one's parents/progenitors is a very prominent theme in the series.
** Interestingly, Yahweh seems to be actively ''trying'' to get this reaction out of His sons.
* CameBackWrong: In his first appearance, Tsukiyomi is a polite, romantic poet and ExtremeDoormat who delights in showing Lucifer the wonders of his mother's palace. After his death and reappearance in the Mansions of the Silence, he takes the form of a spindly spider-thing with a markedly different [[WouldHurtAChild demeanour]].
* ChangelingFantasy: [[spoiler:Elaine Belloc's true father is the archangel Michael.]]
* CharacterDevelopment: A lot, but perhaps most notably Mazikeen, Elaine and Rudd.
** Part of Lucifer's infamous pride is his refusal to develop in any way. He still ends up a somewhat different character at the end than he was at the beginning.
* TheChessmaster: As for ManipulativeBastard, plus Briadach. (Though he's something of a ManipulativeBastard too, in his way.)
* ChekhovsGunman: The Jin en Mok Saul runs into another of his kind and demands to know whether it's Berim or Cestis (it's Cestis). They then try to end the world, but fail. Berim shows up much later, along with a better world-ending plan.
* ChivalrousPervert: Bergelmir. And arguably Coyote. Apparently [[spoiler:Jill]] brings this out in people.
* CombatTentacles: Susano-ono-mikoto deploys these against the Lilim as one of his greater attacks.
* ContinuityNod: Appearances by [[ComicBook/{{Hellblazer}} John Constantine]] and various characters from ''ComicBook/TheSandman''.
** Likewise the appearance of The Source.
* CouncilOfAngels
* CreativeSterility: Most angels.
* CreepyChild: Innocence (AKA the Child) of the Basanos.
* CrossoverCosmology: Appearances by Norse gods, Japanese gods, various mythological creatures and so on.
* CurbstompBattle: A common mortal pimp threatens one of the children of Lilith herself, whose father was a powerful demon. It ends badly for him. Very quickly.
* CursedWithAwesome: Jill gets possessed by the Basanos, and while they give her powers and such if she obeys them, they give her ''a lot'' of crap if she doesn't.
** Subverted with Erishad. Her gods cursed her with immortality, complete with immunity to aging and injury. Sounds awesome, right?
-->'''Erishad:''' Every morning my body forgets all wounds, all hurts. And makes itself again exactly as it was when the gods first cursed me. I have had the same miscarriage every day for four thousand years.
* DarkActionGirl: Mazikeen again, and also Zim'et.
* DeadpanSnarker: Lucifer, Gaudium and Spera. Occasionally, though, even Elaine, Mazikeen, Remiel and Amenadiel get in on the act.
* DebtDetester: Lucifer, to no-one's surprise, despises the idea of being dependent on anybody and makes a point of honour to pay everything back. [[spoiler:The ending implies he resents God for having created him in the first place, since it means he's dependent on someone else for existing.]]
* DeityOfHumanOrigin: Mona Doyle eventually becomes a Goddess. [[spoiler:So does Elaine Belloc, but Elaine was never fully human.]]
* DemonOfHumanOrigin: Christopher Rudd ascends from being one of the damned to [[spoiler:a member of hell's nobility, then a mystic sage preaching salvation in hell itself, to finally leading an army of the damned against Heaven.]]
* DestructiveRomance: Lady Lys' spirit gets permanently broken by her mortal lover Cristopher Rudd. And you thought a romance between a demon and a human would be bad for the ''human''?
* DidYouJustFlipOffCthulhu: With the alignment flipped. Mazikeen, in the Silver City, surrounded by the assembled hosts of heaven. Passion is blasphemy, and she has a powerful need to blaspheme. So she [[TakeThatKiss kisses Beatrice, passionately, while giving the angels the finger]]. Also Lilith, who slapped [[spoiler:Yahweh]] in the face!
* DisproportionateRetribution:
** Saul of the Jin en Mok was distracted by a janitor in a diner and lost his train of thought. So he gave the kid [[ArtifactOfDeath a hypnotic coin]] that causes the possessor to stare at it a little more each day causing them increasing levels of pleasure and pain until eventually they wither and die. Because that's just the kind of guy he is.
** Lucifer himself is prone to these if someone crosses him. He destroys the life work of the angel Melos, thousands of years of effort, for disobeying him.
* DistractedFromDeath: A sideplot in the third volume has an example. A pair of human friends (later lovers) run away from home and sneak into Lucifer's home in Los Angeles. Because it's not a natural place, they wind up wandering it for days without food or water. At one point, the guy wakes up and, without realizing that the girl is dead, tells her to rest while he searches for help.
* DivinelyAppearingDemons: Lucifer is depicted as a handsome man with golden wings, and is consistently shown as one of, if not the, most attractive of all the angels.
* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: Invoked by Lucifer. "You are the man and the woman. This is the garden."
* DramaPreservingHandicap: Lucifer is one of the most powerful beings in existence, probably exceeded only by God and rivalled only by Michael, but he's usually operating under some limitation that prevents him from simply destroying whatever's in his way.
* DreamSpying
* EarthIsYoung: The first albums manage to avert this trope, in spite of being based on creationism. And also in spite of the ''Lucifer'' comic being a spin-off from ''Sandman''. ''This'' version of the setting make it unambiguous that biblical events took place billions of years ago. Later albums kinda throw the concept of linear/objective time out of the window, returning us to the postmodernism of ''Sandman''.
* EldritchAbomination:
** The Jin en Mok and the Silk Man. Okay, ''you'' watch them eat if you don't believe me. They're stated to be leftover beings from a previous version of the universe who want to get out of this one and start their own using Lucifer's gate.
** The angels, demons and Yahweh Himself seem more like this than their usual portrayals. They're just prettier.
* EverythingsBetterWithPrincesses: Elaine Belloc, granddaughter [[spoiler:and heir]] to the king of the very universe: Yahweh Himself!
* EvilMatriarch: Izanami and Lilith. They pull this off in different ways, with Izanami clearly caring very much for her children, while Lilith obviously doesn't care for anyone except herself.
* ExpositionOfImmortality: Given the characters are variously gods, goddesses, angels, demons and other [[TimeAbyss time sinks]], this tends to happen fairly regularly. Lucifer goes down back to Hell during the ''The Morningstar Option'' and has an expositionary, though one-sided, chat with Duma about the times before the creation of man; Meleos remembers creating the Basanos and Lucifer coming to pose for the Lightbringer card and Sandalphon reminisces about the War In Heaven and how he came to collect the Archangel Michael.
* ExpositoryHairstyleChange: Lucifer's hair changes from blond to red as his character darkens. Although that might be a result of messed-up colouring and many different artists in the comics, seeing as his hair has run the gamut from white-blond to straw-blond to strawberry-red to true red to to orange to reddish-black. The hair curls that resemble horns don't remain consistent throughout the comic's run, either.
** The change seems to be actual and physical, since after he [[spoiler: gets his wings back from Izanami]] his hair goes strawberry-blond when he manifests them, but he goes back to the bleach-blond-with-dark-eyebrows look once he hides them again.
* FanServicePack: [[spoiler:Elaine, after becoming a god in Lucifer's realm (and maybe "growing up" in centuries as a spirit),]] and [[spoiler:Mazikeen after the other half of her face is restored]]. And [[spoiler:Izanami]], in her later appearance.
** Lys is an [[InvertedTrope inversion]]. She's introduced as a pure MsFanservice, [[EvilIsSexy hot and frequently naked]]. But after [[spoiler:Rudd poisons her with the ability to feel guilt]], she looks gaunt and dresses much more demurely.
* FantasyCounterpartCulture: Justified; certain parts of Hell styled themselves after Renaissance Europe for fashion reasons.
* FauxAffablyEvil: Berim and Cestis.
* FemmeFatale: Lys. [[spoiler:Izanami has shades of this in her last appearance.]]
* FetusTerrible: Erishad's baby, and also [[spoiler:Eikon]] and [[spoiler:Noema]]
* AFormYouAreComfortableWith: [[spoiler:Yahweh]] tries several on when talking to [[spoiler:Elaine]], but she's not all that comfortable with any of them.
* FullFrontalAssault: Lucifer has a tendency to this. It's [[ArmorIsUseless usually]] but [[FanService not always]] given ''some'' kind of plot reason. (But see also BarbieDollAnatomy, above.)
* GambitPileup: Happens a lot. It's not really surprising, given the density of {{Manipulative Bastard}}s.
* GeniusBruiser: Just because Lucifer is primarily a MagnificentBastard, doesn't mean he can't hold his own. In fact, his method of ''bruising'' involves using the same power that ignited all the stars in the universe.
* GeniusLoci: The Barrowjane.
* {{God}}
* GodAndSatanAreBothJerks: In their own, morally grey way, ultimately neither God or Lucifer have much regard for anything but themselves.
* GodIsFlawed: In this setting, all creators are very flawed. Lucifer himself neglects to construct a proper afterlife, Elaine tries and fails to keep her humans from killing each other in her name, and let's not even get started on Yahweh Himself.
* GondorCallsForAid: In "Morningstar".
* HeartTrauma: The duel between Lucifer and Amenadiel in Effrul.
* HeelRealization: A lot. Sometimes it helps (a bit), sometimes it ''really'' doesn't, and sometimes, ([[spoiler:as in the case of Solomon,]]) it's more of an IgnoredEpiphany.
* HellHasNewManagement: Christopher Rudd manages to go from damned soul to sextoy for the nobility of Hell into one of the nobility himself and eventually ruler of Hell.
* HellInvadesHeaven
* HeteronormativeCrusader: One side character starts out as a ArmoredClosetGay Neo-Nazi who beat an Indian man almost to death for flirting with him, at the urging of some "friends". [[spoiler:The man gets disabled for life, but they end up as lovers anyway - once the first guy realized that ThoseWackyNazis wasn't such a good crowd to hang out with after all.]]
* HeterosexualLifePartners: Elaine and Mona.
* HistoryRepeats: Lucifer burns out [[spoiler:Meleos' eyes in order to prevent him from remaking the Basanos]] in order to avert this trope.
* HoldingBackThePhlebotinum: Lucifer, for all intents and purposes, his powers and abilities are beyond SuperPowerLottery, but the series is not mainly about physical combat and certainly that's not Lucifer's preferred way to get what he wants. Also, it is made clear that in certain realms Lucifer has to abide to their law; so you won't get to see Lucifer going {{ComicBook/Darkseid}} and annihilating other [[PhysicalGod Physical Gods]] with his might.
* HolierThanThou: Amenadiel takes this UpToEleven, as do several other angels.
* HoneyTrap: Musubi attempts this with Lucifer (and, naturally, fails). Cestis is also hinted to have pulled this in the past.
* ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice ([[spoiler:Sandalphon.]])
* InformedAbility: The reader will spend more time running off to ''ComicBook/TheSandman'' and reading footnotes in Lucifer's own series about his SuperPowerLottery and StoryBreakerPower stats than actually see them, or rather the vast majority, in action.
* InspectorJavert: Solomon, [[spoiler:but he doesn't limit himself to just one target]].
* IntellectualAnimal: Lord Arux's "pet", Prackspoor.
* ItsAllAboutMe: Lucifer isn't very verbal about it, but it's fairly obvious that he never does anything for any other reasons than his own.
* JourneyToFindOneself: In "All We Need of Hell".
* KickTheDog: Numerous occurrences. Often by Lucifer himself.
** KickTheSonOfABitch: On the other hand, it's rather hard to feel badly for some of Lucifer's victims, such as a crass truck driver (that Lucifer curses with impotence), Kagutsuchi (who is implied to have raped Musubi in the past and unjustly attacks Lucifer when the latter goes to get his wings back), and Amenadiel.
* KnightTemplar: Several of the angels, such as Amenadiel, Perdissa (who crosses it with elements of {{Yandere}}), and [[LawfulStupid Gabriel]], in the backstory. And Remiel, of course. Ibriel also pulls this [[spoiler:on Lilith. It doesn't end particularly well for him.]]
* LemonyNarrator: Briadach, Unagor and Gaudium.
* LightIsNotGood: Beside his appearance, Lucifer also likes [[KillItWithFire fire as a weapon]], and literally, his name means "light wielder". His purpose was, originally, to kindle the stars at creation's beginning.
* LittleMissAlmighty: [[spoiler:Elaine at the conclusion, having assumed God's mantle.]]
* LookMaNoPlane: Gaudium uses this technique to get from London to New York.
* {{Mangst}}: Christopher Rudd, so very much.
* ManipulativeBastard: As for MagnificentBastard under YMMV, but also the Basanos, Sandalphon, Berim, the Silk Man, and a number of other characters, including Briadach.
* MeleeATrois: Between factions led by Lucifer, Lilith and Rudd, in ''Morningstar''.
* MisaimedFandom: In-universe example with Elaine's early attitude to Lucifer, according to her jealous fathers Michael and David.
* MisterSeahorse: The archangel Michael is used as the (giant-sized) incubator for the "army of archangels" in the second book. It doesn't work out according to plan, however - it's stated that [[spoiler:all the children born were mentally and/or physically impaired, and only Elaine Belloc was a successful attempt]].
* MsFanservice: Jill, which can get kinda {{Squick}}y considering all the awful things she goes through.
* MuggleFosterParents: [[spoiler:The Bellocs to Elaine.]]
* MultiArmedAndDangerous: One of the assassins sent to dispatch Lucifer in "Inferno".
** Musubi of the Shiko-Me from ''The House of Windowless Rooms'' also qualifies.
* MyRuleFuIsStrongerThanYours: Lucifer constantly contends with gods, demons, and angels of incredible power, and is frequently at an apparent disadvantage when doing so. But ''all'' of them (except God) have to operate within certain rules, and Lucifer ''always'' knows how to turn those rules to his advantage.
* TheNeidermeyer [[InSpace IN HELL!]]: Remiel.
* NiceGuy: Michael. This serves him about as well as you'd expect in context.
* NighInvulnerability: Many, if not all, of the angels have this to some extent.
* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: Lucifer is explicitly based on Music/DavidBowie.
* OmnicidalManiac: Fenris. He does personify destruction - but he's rather more proactive than one would hope.
* TheOmniscient: Yahweh. Obviously. Everything that happens and ever will happen from the dawn of time through the first half of the series, including all of Lucifer's efforts to escape The Plan, were part of The Plan. Lucifer's rebellion and the War in Heaven, his rulership of Hell, abdication of Hell, and creating a new universe - all God's Divine Plan. This becomes a plot point in the second half of the series when God deliberately withdraws His will from the universe and turns a blind eye, allowing the possibility of an outcome He ''won't'' always have known. It was the only way He could allow something He could not predict to occur. Even then, He still guessed much of it correctly in almost every detail.
* OurAngelsAreDifferent: A lot.
* PerpetualFrowner: In contrast to his earlier appearance in ''ComicNook/TheSandman'', Lucifer never smiles or laughs. In fact, one could go so far as to say he only expresses two emotions: perpetual annoyance and brief flashes of pure rage.
* PluckyComicRelief: Gaudium and Spera.
* PosthumousCharacter: Given that the afterlife in this series appears to have a revolving door, more than you'd think and livelier than you'd think.
* PowerOfTheVoid
* {{Psychopomp}}: Lucifer, self-announced as one during ''The House of Windowless Rooms'' arc.
* RaceLift: A weird, meta version; Rachel Begai and her family appear to be entirely white in the first issue, despite being Native American (full-blooded in the case of Rachel's father and half in the case of Rachel and Paul). Later issues fix this.
* RageAgainstTheHeavens: The title character's major motivation: to achieve something outside his Father's Divine Plan.
* RapeAsDrama: [[spoiler: Jill suffers rape at the hands of the Basanos.]] Rachel Begai [[spoiler:and Mazikeen]] also suffer a NearRapeExperience.
* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: Poor Uriel. He's just trying to hold the Host together while Lucifer, Michael and Yahweh play out their grand drama. It's after he dies that they really start to fall apart. Notable for being polite to Mazikeen (a demon, remember) when she offers aid.
* TheResenter: The Lilim have this as their [[PlanetOfHats hat]], the exceptions being Briadoch and Mazikeen.
* {{Retcon}}: Lucifer states in ''ComicBook/TheSandman'' that he lost none of his powers when he abdicated his leadership of Hell. In his own series, though, recovering his wings (and his full power) becomes an important plot point.
* RightHandCat: Prackspoor to Lord Arux.
* {{Satan}}: Subverts almost every traditional 'devil' concept.
* ScrewDestiny: Lucifer tries to one-up Destiny of the Endless, first by trying to bet he'll be able to do something Destiny cannot predict (which Destiny doesn't rise to), and then by ripping pages from Destiny's book and burning them, claiming Destiny is now as much in the dark as he. [[spoiler:Except the ashes turn out to tell him exactly what will happen, allowing Destiny to [[LoopholeAbuse bend his own rules never to read aloud from his book]] ''and'' show Lucifer there's nothing he doesn't foresee. Judging by his words, Lucifer is forced to concede.]]
* SelfInflictedHell: Every one of the damned in hell is this to some extent. [[spoiler:Lucifer arguably ends up with one of his own in the end.]]
* SelfServingMemory: In the final issue Lucifer has a flashback to his discussion with Morpheus back in ''ComicBook/TheSandman''. While in the original storyline Lucifer is presented as extremely emotive and passionate, laughing and expressing visible anger at the folly of mortals, in the flashback he seems just as stoic as he has been for the rest of the comic.
* ShoutOut: John Constantine is amongst the gathered parties come to the Lux to discuss [[spoiler:the portal created by]] Lucifer. Gains extra points since Constantine was one of the DC Verse characters used in the early issues of ''ComicBook/TheSandman'' to connect it to DC's wider world and Creator/MikeCarey wrote a lot of Hellblazer.
* SiblingRivalry: The Lilim, and also Lucifer/Michael (though seeing the designated two most powerful creatures in being squabble like kids has a certain charm) and the host in general. Also, for comic relief version, Gaudium, Spera and Lumen.
* SiblingYinYang: Lucifer and Michael.
* SilentBob: [[spoiler:Duma.]]
* SlasherSmile: Mazikeen has a memorable one.
* SlouchOfVillainy: Lucifer pulls this to provoke Michael, who is additionally annoyed at the transparency of the ploy.
* SmugSnake: Sandalphon, so very much. Also [[spoiler:Amenadiel]], literally and for a short while.
* TheSociopath: Quite a few characters, including the title character.
* StalkerWithATestTube: [[spoiler:Izanami to Lucifer at the end of the series is a version of this - and it works, but we don't see that until the sequel. She also decides to reinvent herself after.]]
* StopWorshippingMe: [[spoiler:Lucifer in his version of Creation.]]
* SunnydaleSyndrome: Played with and semi-subverted in terms of how far the more incidental humans (etc.) around the main cast seem to have any idea what's going on. After a while they just seem to sort of roll with it.
** "Normal consciousness will be resumed."
* SuperEmpowering
* SuperPowerLottery:
** To spare some space, just take the popular belief of {{God}}, and make it a bit less powerful, and in a fairly literal sense you have both Lucifer and Michael; however, given the series is not about {{Physical God}}s going at each other throats Franchise/{{Superman}} vs. ComicBook/{{Darkseid}} style, the reader [[HoldingBackThePhlebotinum rarely sees more than]] Lucifer boasting, exercising his infinite will and a certain degree of omnipotence and omniscience during the series' run. There are ''some'' glimpses of Lucifer's might; they're memorable. However, he prefers to rely on careful preparation and manipulation, not least because obliterating foes with infinitely-kindled primordial fire lacks a certain style. Mind you, that "certain degree" of omniscience and omnipotence includes ''creating a new multiverse''. Also, he ''breaks'' an afterlife just by visiting it.
** God's role in the story is defined by the fact that He is totally unassailable physically, instantly knows everything that's going on, and is several leagues above even Lucifer in raw intelligence.
* TakeAThirdOption: Repeated plot point.
* TakenForGranite: Izanami initially appears as a giant rock statue, though it seems her not speaking or moving much is by choice.
* TarotMotifs: The Basanos, who also provide a TarotTroubles reading for Lucifer in the original mini-series.
* TemptingFate: Quite a few characters, including the title character, get into this occasionally.
* ToHellAndBack: Though, being the former Lord of Hell, this isn't anything unusual for Lucifer.
* ToHellWithThisInfernalJob: In the backstory.
* TookALevelInCheerfulness: Lucifer's personality lightens up after the time skip.
* TotallyEighteen: Passionately averted with the female protagonist Elaine. At the beginning of the story she is twelve years old, and as she grow up her age is never mentioned again. She gradually and seamlessly transitions from childhood to becoming a TimeAbyss.
* TwistedEucharist: The great wolf Fenris escaped his imprisonment and hatched a long-term plan to conserve his energies for the end of the world. He staged a reconciliation dinner for his enemies, the Aesir, and tricked them into eating pieces of his own flesh and drinking his blood, thereby storing his memories and powers in godly vessels. In present times, he allies himself with a group of other entropy gods to hunt down all of those who partook in his flesh and devour them. He even force-feeds a weakened Lucifer a bit of his own blood to drive him into a murderous frenzy, killing his own brother Michael, feeding Yggdrasil his fallen blood and essentially securing the destruction of the universe
* TheUnintelligible: Mazikeen. [[spoiler:She got better when Jill healed her and forced symmetry on Mazikeen's original partially-skinless face, but she is not happy about it by any means.]]
* TheUnreveal: In "Eve", Spera asks Mazikeen how she and Lucifer had sex, given his BarbieDollAnatomy. [[spoiler:Mazikeen whispers in her ear, and Spera looks shocked, in a good way. That's it.]]
* UnwittingPawn: Poor Charlie, Erishad, Jill, and poor Mr. Easterman. [[spoiler:Arguably repeatedly, too. Elaine and Michael may also count. And Lucifer himself, relative to God - though anyone would be relative to ''God''. As the Almighty Himself points out, everything Lucifer knows he learned from his Father.]]
* TheVamp: Lady Lys [[spoiler:initially]]; Bet Jogie, who has the description "The woman who is both beautiful and terrible." In fact, she personifies the concept.
* VillainousBreakdown: Quite a few, including one from Remiel that reminds you he's actually quite powerful, emotionally unbalanced {{Scrappy}} that he is.
** [[spoiler:Lilith]] has one that's also a TearJerker ''and'' a HeelRealization. [[spoiler:''I was never cruel, before I loved...'']]
* VillainProtagonist: As a back cover blurb puts it, this is a story about the forces of good, evil and beyond evil.
* VillainsNeverLie: Lucifer. Keeping promises and repaying debts is one of the few traditional virtues he's a stickler about maintaining.
-->"...When the devil wants to get something out of you, he doesn't lie at all. He tells you the exact, literal truth. And he lets you find your own way to hell."
* VillainTeamUp: In "Morningstar".
* WickedCultured: Lucifer, obviously, but also Lys, Sandalphon, Berim...
* WindmillCrusader: We have the political faction "Efferul for Lucifer" that fights on the Morningstar's behalf. He is ''not'' amused, as their agenda is based on a very misguided vision of what he wants and needs.
* WiseBeyondTheirYears: Elaine Belloc.
* {{Wishplosion}}: The velleity in "The Morningstar Option".
* TheWorfEffect: If Mazikeen is getting the crap kicked out of her, it's time to panic. Unfortunately, Mazikeen is ''always'' getting the crap kicked out of her.
** You mean before she recovers and kicks the crap out of them.
* WorldOfCardboardSpeech: Several, not surprisingly given the power levels of some of the characters.
* TheWorldTree: Yggdrasil, in "The Wolf Beneath the Tree".
* WorthyOpponent: Judging by how he treats him compared to practically everyone else, Lucifer appears to hold a great deal of respect for Duma. Or maybe it's simply because there's no sport in trying to verbally provoke someone who never talks back.
* WouldBeRudeToSayGenocide: In ''Mansions of the Silence'', Lucifer annihilates billions of souls as a side effect of saving the life of one single person. (That one person was someone he owed a favor, his billions of victims were not.) Of all the people who witness this tragedy, only Bergelmir says anything about this action being immoral, and even he is quite polite about it. Even so, everyone else simply ignores him as they would a person who's being generally rude, impolite and socially inappropriate.
** Elsewhere in the series it is mentioned that it's impossible to destroy a soul; one can only unravel it so that it will take a millennia to reform. Considering that the Mansions of the Silence are in some ways worse than Hell, Lucifer's actions don't come off quite as bad.
** Also, who in their right mind would start lecturing at Lucifer, under the circumstances?
* YearInsideHourOutside: Lucifer's universe runs much faster than God's, something that plays into the plot several times. The difference in the passage of time seems to change from story to story, however.
* YouAreWhoYouEat: The Jin En Mok demons Cestis and Saul. This is usually just a disguise, but to her horror, it ends up being a [[TheMindIsAPlayThingOfTheBody literal example]] for Cestis.
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!! ''Lucifer (2015)'' contains examples of:
* AbusiveParents: Medjine's adoptive family treats her like utter crap. [[spoiler:A case can also be made for Izanami, who pretty much had Takehiko raised for the sole purpose of killing Lucifer.]]
* AllergicToEvil: [[spoiler:God, which is how Lucifer kills him.]]
* AntagonisticOffspring: Takehiko, the son of Izanami [[spoiler: and Lucifer Morningstar, whom he intends to kill.]]
* AntiVillain: Takehiko, who comes across more as a kid in over his head than an actual threat.
* BackFromTheDead: [[spoiler: Michael Demiurgos, who was killed by [[BrainwashedAndCrazy Lucifer]] in the original series. Unfortunately, because God's a mind-controlling OmnicidalManiac, it also crosses with CameBackWrong.]]
* BenevolentBoss: Lucifer treats his employees at Ex Lux well. Given that it's ''Lucifer'', though, he's definitely not above breaking out the snark.
* BigScrewedUpFamily: Takehiko gets this on ''both'' sides, being the son of [[EvilMatriarch Izanami]] [[spoiler:and Lucifer.]]
* BreakingTheFourthWall: [[spoiler:Elaine, who was the NarratorAllAlong.]]
* BrokenBird: Gabriel's time in Hell and the human world has not been kind to him.
* BodyHorror: Gabriel is obviously missing his heart, and Lucifer has a constantly bleeding wound on his side.
* CameBackWrong: [[spoiler:God, who comes back as an OmnicidalManiac.]]
* ClosetKey: Raphael decides to seek comfort from [[spoiler: runaway Lorin Hammon.]]
* CruelMercy: [[spoiler:Rather than kill Takehiko and Izanami, Mazikeen sentences them to be sealed inside the House of Windowless Rooms for eternity.]]
* DespairEventHorizon: Gabriel's since crossed it after being exiled from heaven thanks to Constantine. [[spoiler: It saves him from being mind-controlled by God.]]
* EvenEvilHasStandards: Lucifer's a fan of all kinds of sins, except for those that interfere with free will.
* FreakOut: [[spoiler:Raphael, upon hearing a secret from Metatron, has one of these and kills him.]]
* GodIsDead: The question is by who and how? [[spoiler: ''He'' did, with the involuntary help of Gabriel.]]
* TheHighQueen: Mazikeen became this in Hell. She's still very much capable of being an ActionGirl, however.
* LateArrivalSpoiler: The new series naturally comes with the assumption that readers are familiar with the original. As a result, major spoilers from the first series are treated as common knowledge.
* OhCrap: [[spoiler: "Free will. That bastard is taking away our free will."]] Also counts as OOCIsSeriousBusiness, as it's [[spoiler:the normally unshakeable Lucifer who says this.]]
* PsychicAssistedSuicide: [[spoiler: How God forced Gabriel to kill him.]] Gabriel doesn't take it well.
* RapeIsASpecialKindOfEvil: Lucifer is staunchly unimpressed with a would-be rapist who slipped a roofie into a woman's drink at his club. He ends up tossing the guy into a star that was named after him as a Christmas present to one of his workers.
* RedOniBlueOni: Gabriel is the red, Lucifer is [[TheChessmaster (naturally)]] the blue.
* RevengeBeforeReason: Izanami. Not only does she [[spoiler:raise her son to take revenge on his own father, but when God is planning ''omnicide'', she keeps the former as her primary aim, rather than setting her goals aside for the moment. Not to mention that she doesn't even ''try'' to rescue Takehiko or find out if he's alive.]]
* ShootTheMessenger: Mazikeen, to one of Takehiko's (who proposes ''marriage'' on his behalf).
* SilkHidingSteel: Izanami, and she has the NervesOfSteel to back it up.
* TokenMinority: Of all the angels, there are maybe two black angels, [[spoiler:and a single gay one.]]
* TranquilFury: Lucifer shows this whenever he gets angry, most notably when Mazikeen gets injured, and when [[spoiler:he gets an eviction notice for his club.]]
* {{Transplant}}: From minor Hellblazer villain, Gabriel now co-stars with Lucifer in the sequel.
* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: [[spoiler:Medjine's abusive foster family never comes up again. Michael is a more egregious example.]]
* WhatTheHellHero: Lucifer gets called out on his selfish abandonment of creation, namely by [[spoiler:Mazikeen and Elaine.]]
* YoureNotMyFather: [[spoiler:Lucifer says this of what's apparently left of God.]]
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