History Recap / SupernaturalS11E10TheDevilInTheDetails

* AudienceSurrogate: Lucifer serves as one when complaining about the various morally-grey or outright stupid actions that Sam and Dean have been taking since Season 8, as well as how too codependent their relationship with each other has become.

* ShoutOut: When a suspicious Sam asks Lucifer what he plans on doing afterwards if he does succeed in beating the Darkness, the devil responds "I don't know. [[Series/Lucifer2016 Move to L.A, solve crimes?]]" Earlier, a reaper was seen reading [[ComicBook/TheSandman Death: The Time of Your Life]].

* ShoutOut: When a suspicious Sam asks Lucifer what he plans on doing afterwards if he does succeed in beating the Darkness, the devil responds "I don't know. [[Series/{{Lucifer}}2016 Move to Los Angeles and solve crimes?]]" Earlier, a reaper was seen reading [[ComicBook/TheSandman Death: The Time of Your Life]].

* PutOnABus: Castiel gets possessed by Lucifer at the end of the episode. Lucifer has remained in control of Cass since, essentially meaning Cass has been removed from the show until/unless Lucifer either leaves or dies in a future episode.

* ShoutOut: When a suspicious Sam asks Lucifer what he plans on doing afterwards if he does succeed in beating the Darkness, the devil responds "I don't know. [[Series/{{Lucifer}}2016 Move to Los Angeles and solve crimes?]]"

For this episode: 1 human and 1 angel.

For the series so far = At least 1204 humans (of which 13 were witches), 1123 angels, 182 demons, 69 vampires, 52 ghosts, 36 Jefferson Starships, 22 gods, 19 zombies, 12 werewolves, 10 hellhounds, 7 shapeshifters, 7 skinwalkers, 6 changelings, 5 djinn, 5 reapers, 4 dogs, 4 ghouls, 4 Leviathan, 3 Khan Worms, 2 Amazons, 2 arachnes, 2 kitsunes, 2 rugarus, 2 Thule, 2 vetalas, 2 zannas, 1 cat, 1 crocotta, Death, 1 deer, 1 dragon, 1 fairy, 1 familiar, 1 lamia, the Mother of All, 1 nachzehrer, 1 okami, 1 phoenix, 1 pishtaco, 1 Purgatory creature, 1 rakshasa, 1 rawhead, 1 shojo, 1 shtriga, 1 siren, 1 Titan, 1 wendigo, 1 whore of Babylon, 1 wicked witch, and 1 wraith.

* LastOfHisKind: Lucifer tells Sam that he's the only one who has ever defeated The Darkness. Sam reminds Lucifer that the last battle was won with the combined forces of God and four archangels. God is AWOL and the other three archangels are dead.

* NoSell: It turns out that BoltOfDivineRetribution from the last episode did jack all to Amara.

* BadassDecay: The cage was designed by God himself to be the perfect prison for Lucifer. Once it took decades of planning by demons to break the 66 seals that would open the cage. Now it can be opened and resealed on a whim by a couple of spells by the [[SuperLoser less than competent]] witch Rowena. [[JustifiedTrope Justified]] because the release of the Darkness damaged the cage enough to make this possible.