History Recap / SupernaturalS11E10TheDevilInTheDetails

* SlaveCollar: Crowley has a "witchcatcher" for Rowena that makes a witch do his bidding if collared. It works.

* 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 Los Angeles and solve crimes?]]"

* GodzillaThreshold: Defied by Sam, but played straight with Castiel: after personally seeing Amara shrug off divine wrath itself, he becomes desperate enough that he allows his vessel to become Lucifer's new host.

* 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}} Move to Los Angeles and solve crimes?]]"

* 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}} Move to Las Angeles and solve crimes?]]"

%%* SoundtrackDissonance

* BadassDecay: Lucifer's 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.

* BadassDecay: Lucifer's 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. {{Justified}} because the release of the Darkness damaged the cage enough to make this possible.

* DealWithTheDevil: Lucifer's literal offer to Sam and he knows it.
* FantasticNuke: The massive smite-bomb unleashed by heaven is like this, according to Castiel. Dean tried to get closer to the epicenter of the blast but the after-effect sent him into vomiting convulsions, reminiscent of the effects of radioactive fallout after a nuke. Castiel tells him the last time such a blast occurred, it [[Literature/TheBible turned Lot's wife into a pillar of salt.]]

* ForInconveniencePressOne: Crowley’s Voicemail
-->"Thank you for phoning Crowley, King of Hell. For demon deals press 1. To report a sighting of that ginger whore Rowena, press 2…"
* HaveYouSeenMyGod: As Lucifer puts it when trying to convince Sam, ''"God went out for a pack of smokes and never came back."''
* HopeSpot: It looks like Rowena resealed Lucifer away in time before he could kill the Winchesters and Castiel... until it turns out Castiel agreed to be his new vessel and set him free.
* LargeHam: At the episode's end, it's clear that Misha Collins is thoroughly enjoying imitating Mark Pellegrino's mannerisms as Lucifer and even taking the smarm up a notch.
* LesserOfTwoEvils: Lucifer frames Sam's choice this way when trying to persuade him to become Lu's vessel again. Sam [[DefiedTrope defies]] this in the end and tells Lucier that he's not a lesser threat than Amara at all, and will go right back to bringing about the apocalypse he always wanted even if he does defeat the darkness.
* LoopholeAbuse: Lucifer does escape the cage, but in Castiel's body instead of Sam's. Castiel agrees to it out of sheer desperation after he faced Amara's power.

* SignificantAnagram: Satan appears in Rowena's dreams dressed up as ''Santa''.
* SlaveCollar: Crowley has a "witch catcher" for Rowena that makes a witch do his bidding if collared. It works.
* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: Lucifer's central argument to Sam about why he needs to let him in. He claims Sam has become weak from guilt over the time when he let Dean stay in purgatory, and that the old Sam who defeated Lucifer in season 5 is long gone. He also claims that Sam is weak because he would sacrifice the world now to save Dean, rather than have the strength to allow him and any other loved ones die to defeat the darkness.
* VillainousBreakdown: After using all his compelling arguments and powers of persuasion on Sam to become his vessel to fight Amara, Lucifer completely loses his shit when Sam still says no. Lu's plan B involves punching Sam until he says yes, then threatening to kill Dean and Cas.

* YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness: Telling the devil you just helped to free that you're the only one who can re-imprison him was not Rowena's smartest move.

* CurbStompBattle: Amara does this to Castiel when he finds her, but refrains from killing him because she thinks he's too weak and pathetic now to be a threat. And to sent a message.

* WhamEpisode: Lucifer gets out from his cage. In Castiel's body, which Castiel trades of voluntary.

* CurbStompBattle: Amara does this to Castiel when he finds her, but refrains from killing him because she thinks he's too weak and pathetic now to be a threat.

* ChewingTheScenery: At the episode's end, it's clear that Misha Collins is thoroughly enjoying imitating Mark Pellegrino's mannerisms as Lucifer and even taking the smarm up a notch.

* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: Lucifer's central argument to Sam about why he needs to let him in. He claims Sam has become weak after the time when he let Dean stay in purgatory, and that the old Sam who defeated Lucifer in season 5 is long gone. He also claims that Sam is weak because he would sacrifice the world now to save Dean, rather than have the strength to allow him and any other loved ones die to defeat the darkness.

* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: Lucifer's central argument to Sam about why he needs to let him in. He claims Sam has become weak after letting Dean stay in purgatoryi, and that the old Sam who defeated Lucifer in season 5 is long gone. He also claims that Sam is weak because he would sacrifice the world now to save Dean, rather than have the strength to allow him and any other loved ones die to defeat the darkness.

* FantasticNuke: The massive smite-bonb unleashed by heaven is like this, according to Castiel. Dean tried to get closer to the epicenter of the blast but the after-effect sent him into vomiting convulsions, reminiscent of the effects of radioactive fallout after a nuke. Castiel tells him the last time such a blast occurred, it [[Literature/TheBible turned Lot's wife into a pillar of salt.]]

* VillanousBreakdown: After using all his compelling arguments and powers of persuasion on Sam to become his vessel to fight Amara, Lucifer completely loses his shit when Sam still says no. Lu's plan B involves punching Sam until he says yes, then threatening to kill Dean and Cas.

* FantasticNuke: The massive smite-bonb unleashed by heaven is like this, according to Castiel. Dean tried to get closer to the epicenter of the blast, but the after-effect sent him into vomiting convulsions, reminiscent of the effects of radioactive fallout after a nuke. Castiel tells him the last time such a blast occurred, it [[Literature/TheBible turned Lot's wife into a pillar of salt.]]

Lucifer tries to get Sam's permission to possess him while Dean and Castiel investigate whether or not the angels successfully smited Amara.