History YMMV / Lucifer2016

* DracoInLeatherPants: Michael, in some spaces. Despite having essentially no redeeming qualities in the canon he's acquired a small fanbase.

** [[spoiler:Ella and Dan]] randomly get attracted to one another within the span of a few episodes. It's especially ridiculous because the latter is still [[spoiler:grieving for Charlotte]]. Tellingly, the entire incident appears to have been quietly dropped as it was not mentioned in season five [[spoiler:with Ella instead being involved with Pete Daily]].

** [[spoiler:Ella and Dan]] randomly get attracted to one another within the span of a few episodes. It's especially ridiculous because the latter is still [[spoiler:grieving for Charlotte]].

** "[[Recap/Lucifer2016S05E07OurMojo Our Mojo]]" & "[[Recap/Lucifer2016S05E08SpoilerAlert Spoiler Alert]]": [[HeManWomanHater Pete Daily]], first appearing in "[[Recap/Lucifer2016S05E06BlueBallz BlueBallz]]" as a [[BitchInSheepsClothing friendly journalist]], is the [[SerialKiller Whisper Killer]], notorious for cutting women's vocal cords and leaving them to choke on their blood. Killing four women in this style, Pete's actions inspire [[JackTheRipoff Les Klumpsky]] to start murdering women in the same style and pin all of Pete's murders on himself, making Pete responsible for all of Klumpsky's murders. When his girlfriend Ella Lopez finds out about Pete's secret, he tries to strangle her to death.

** [[Recap/Lucifer2016S04E10WhosDaNewKingOfHell Who's da New King of Hell?]]: [[TheStarscream Dromos]] is a demon who possessed the body of the recently-deceased Father Kinley to get his king, [[Characters/Lucifer2016LuciferMorningstar Lucifer Morningstar]], back to {{Hell}}. Originally [[FauxAffablyEvil acting friendly and loyal]] towards his king, once Lucifer makes it clear he's not going back, Dromos drops the act. Instead deciding he will get himself a new king, Dromos kidnaps [[WouldHurtAChild Lucifer's infant nephew Charlie]], planning to mold him into the type of king he would like. Alongside this, Dromos would kill dozens of humans so his demonic siblings could help him in his goal. With his actions convincing Lucifer to go back to Hell, Dromos manages to [[TheBadGuyWins win]] while not facing any consequences for his actions, free to continue torturing sinners for all eternity.

** "[[Recap/Lucifer2016S04E06OrgyPantsToWork Orgy Pants To Work]]": [[DirtyCoward Julian McCaffrey]] is the son of Jacob Tierning and Willow [=McCaffrey=]. After his mother's death, Julian took over her nudist sanctuary and using his father's shipping company smuggled both drugs and [[HumanTraffickers foreign women]] into America, with the latter quickly being sold into {{sex slave}}ry. Once nudist visitor Gary Van Blunt found out, Julian had him murdered, and after one of his human trafficking operations got ambushed, Julian killed a cop and tried to defend himself by saying he's better than his father because unlike his father, Julian [[AtLeastIAdmitIt admits to being bad]]. Remorseless and [[NeverMyFault always trying to pin the blame on something else]], Julian claims the women he smuggles are broken toys even before they're forced into slavery.
** [[Recap/Lucifer2016S04E10WhosDaNewKingOfHell Who's Da New King of Hell?]]: [[TheStarscream Dromos]] is a demon who possessed the body of the recently-deceased Father Kinley to get his king, [[Characters/Lucifer2016LuciferMorningstar Lucifer Morningstar]], back to {{Hell}}. Originally [[FauxAffablyEvil acting friendly and loyal]] towards his king, once Lucifer makes it clear he's not going back, Dromos drops the act. Instead deciding he will get himself a new king, Dromos kidnaps [[WouldHurtAChild Lucifer's infant nephew Charlie]], planning to mold him into the type of king he would like. Alongside this, Dromos would kill dozens of humans so his demonic siblings could help him in his goal. With his actions convincing Lucifer to go back to Hell, Dromos manages to [[TheBadGuyWins win]] while not facing any consequences for his actions, free to continue torturing sinners for all eternity.

* CompleteMonster:

** "[[Recap/Lucifer2016S05E07OurMojo Our Mojo]]" & "[[Recap/Lucifer2016S05E08SpoilerAlert Spoiler Alert]]": [[spoiler:[[HeManWomanHater Pete Daily]], first appearing in "[[Recap/Lucifer2016S05E06BlueBallz BlueBallz]]" as a [[BitchInSheepsClothing friendly journalist]], is the [[SerialKiller Whisper Killer]], notorious for cutting women's vocal cords and leaving them to choke on their blood. Killing four women in this style, Pete's actions inspire [[JackTheRipoff Les Klumpsky]] to start murdering women in the same style and pin all of Pete's murders on himself, making Pete responsible for all of Klumpsky's murders. When his girlfriend Ella Lopez finds out about Pete's secret, he tries to strangle her to death.]]

* Lucifer sees his story as this compared to how he's been portrayed throughout history. Dr. Linda posits a third view in "Favorite Son," that God sent Lucifer to be[[note]]to borrow a quote from ''The Dark Knight''[[/note]] "the hero Humanity deserves but not the one it needs right now." According to Dr. Linda's theory [[spoiler: possibly helped out by Amenadiel]], God sent his favorite son to bear the hatred and scorn of the world because He knew Lucifer could take it. Sound like another [[UsefulNotes/{{Jesus}} favored son]]?
* Infernal Guinea Pig has Cain mention offhanded that his brother was a bit of an asshole and the fact that his soul is in Hell, rather than Heaven, could throw the entire conflict into question.
* Season 4’s big WhamLine reveals [[spoiler: only an angel or celestial can rule Hell]], which dramatically shifts perception how and why Lucifer is King of Hell.
* God Himself - Initial impressions range from distant, but loving father to neglectful father to abusive. Appearing in person doesn't help much. While it is clear He does love His wife and angels he attitude of polite indifference, evasive nonanswers, and refusal to actually address any questions, and vague omniscience make it unclear how much was a mask, how much he is faking, how much he knew or really anything about him.

* CompleteMonster ("[[Recap/Lucifer2016S04E06OrgyPantsToWork Orgy Pants To Work]]"): [[DirtyCoward Julian McCaffrey]] is the son of Jacob Tierning and Willow [=McCaffrey=]. After his mother's death, Julian took over her nudist sanctuary and using his father's shipping company smuggled both drugs and [[HumanTraffickers foreign women]] into America, with the latter quickly being sold into {{sex slave}}ry. Once nudist visitor Gary Van Blunt found out, Julian had him murdered, and after one of his human trafficking operations got ambushed, Julian killed a cop and tried to defend himself by saying he's better than his father because unlike his father, Julian [[AtLeastIAdmitIt admits to being bad]]. Remorseless and [[NeverMyFault always trying to pin the blame on something else]], Julian claims the women he smuggles are broken toys even before they're forced into slavery.

* AlternativeCharacterInterpretation: Lucifer sees his story as this compared to how he's been portrayed throughout history. Dr. Linda posits a third view in "Favorite Son," that God sent Lucifer to be[[note]]to borrow a quote from ''The Dark Knight''[[/note]] "the hero Humanity deserves but not the one it needs right now." According to Dr. Linda's theory [[spoiler: possibly helped out by Amenadiel]], God sent his favorite son to bear the hatred and scorn of the world because He knew Lucifer could take it. Sound like another [[UsefulNotes/{{Jesus}} favored son]]?
** Infernal Guinea Pig has Cain mention offhanded that his brother was a bit of an asshole and the fact that his soul is in Hell, rather than Heaven, could throw the entire conflict into question.
** Season 4’s big WhamLine reveals [[spoiler: only an angel or celestial can rule Hell]], which dramatically shifts perception how and why Lucifer is King of Hell.

** Season 4 is a case for ''re-growing'' the beard, and is considered to be perhaps the best season of the show (as well as a good demonstration that the move from Fox to Netflix was actually for the best). The shorter season (only ten episodes) results in much tighter writing, the looser censor restrictions allowed for darker storylines with violence, sex, and cursing (all rather appropriate given the main character), and the budget was bumped for more usage of special effects that let demons and angels show off their celestial features and powers more freely, especially Lucifer's devil face.

* CaptainObviousReveal: Hands up, anyone who actually believed that after months of buildup, the Sinnerman would actually be just some random guy we'd never seen before.

** Chloe during the fourth season. [[spoiler:After seeing Lucifer's true form,]] she's left reeling and desperately searching for answers. When answers appear to come from [[BitchInSheepsClothing Father Kinley]], she does as he asks in hopes that it will help. However, not only does this involve lying to her partner's face, but also [[spoiler: essentially spying on him and trying to exorcise him and ''send him to Hell'']], despite the fact that Lucifer has been up-front about his identity (human credulity notwithstanding) from the very start. And while Lucifer definitely has a sinister side, he also qualifies as a JerkWithAHeartOfGold who has helped her on her cases since he first met her. Instead of [[WellIntentionedExtremist well-meant]], Chloe comes off as someone who [[spoiler:refused to see the truth until it was quite literally staring her in the face, and then decided to listen to a perfect stranger over someone she had considered a good friend up to that point.]] Then, when she's confronted about her actions, she tries to excuse herself by saying it was [[NeverMyFault only "for a moment".]] Not helping her case is the fact that [[spoiler:Dr. Linda Martin found out earlier (as Maze points out), and ''her'' HeroicBSOD didn't start off a chain of plot-related DisasterDominoes that ultimately found Lucifer back in Hell, a place he ''loathed'' running.]] Her statement in the Season Finale of being afraid to [[spoiler: lose Lucifer because she loves him]] is another nail in the coffin, given that she decides to tell him about it while a [[spoiler:demon invasion and an attempted babynapping]] is going on, despite the fact that she now knows [[spoiler:she makes Lucifer vulnerable]]. Never mind that a lone, unarmed woman is running around with a baby in a dangerous situation, [[SkewedPriorities that's what really matters!]]
* WhatAnIdiot: Lucifer tries to tell Chloe the truth, but [[spoiler: discovers that he's lost his Devil face]].
** '''You'd Expect''': Lucifer to keep his promise, and [[spoiler: once he realizes that his wings keep growing back]], he can show those to Chloe as proof.
** '''Instead''': He abandons his realization about the dangers of keeping her in the dark, breaks his word and proceeds to not tell her anything, leaving her frustrated.
** '''The Result''': Chloe gets increasingly frustrated with Lucifer's antics, even when he's genuinely trying to help. What's more, she's taken a romantic interest in [[spoiler: Cain, the world's first murderer, and every single moment she's shared with him has been built on nothing but lies]].
** '''You'd Then Expect''': Lucifer to tell Chloe the truth in order to explain the danger to her and keep her safe.
** '''Instead(!)''': He ''continues'' to keep her in the dark for really no reason at all, potentially putting her life in even more danger because of her unwilling ignorance towards the situation. The show has tried to draw attention to this, though; it's shown that Lucifer is actually afraid that his celestial nature might hurt Chloe in some way (or worse, get her killed) and in the final episode Chloe calls Lucifer out on keeping secrets from her when she finds out that he knew [[spoiler:Pierce was the Sinnerman]] and didn't tell her, even when she was dating the guy.
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* Accidental Aesop: In "A Chance at a Happy Ending", Ella prays to God, tells him that almost it feels like he's not up there anymore, and asks him for a sign that she is where she's supposed to be, only for Chloe to walk in and be happy to see her. This is played as a heartwarming moment, but it's actually a total coincidence, since [[spoiler: the audience knows that God actually isn't there]]. So it ends up looking like a demonstration of how people can assume God is responsible for things that are probably just a coincidence.

** Season 5B's MusicalEpisode dropped straight into this territory thanks to the massive overuse of AutoTune (particularly for Maze's song).

** Every time someone acts like the sight of Lucifer's devil face is soul-destroyingly horrifying. It certainly looks unpleasant, but hardly to the point of making people paralysed with fear or sending them to an insane asylum.

* MisaimedFandom: The [=YouTube=] upload of the scene from "Boo Normal" where [[HilarityEnsues Chloe has to go undercover at a]] [[UsefulNotes/FurryFandom furry con]] is littered with comments from members of the fandom good-naturedly joking about how accurate its portrayal of the community is, and how it's totally believable that someone would get in a fistfight at the con and end up as a suspect in a murder investigation because they believed [[SeriousBusiness someone had stolen their OC.]] It helps that the characters specifically mention that it's "usually not a sexual thing", and that that it was filmed [[CastTheExpert at an actual furry con]] with a number of real participants there. And for once, unlike most other mainstream media, it portrayed furries in a positive light, otherwise, and didn't resort to the oft-repeated "furries are sexual deviants" angle like many of its contemporaries, favoring poking fun at other aspects of the fandom.

* JustHereForGodzilla: While the show suffers from a BrokenBase both critically and in the fandom, particularly when it comes to its considerable deviations from the comics, everyone agrees that the main reason to watch the show is for the titular character. Tom Ellis' Lucifer is a smug, audacious, sexy, and charming, and is simply a lot of fun to watch, both when he's having fun himself (which is often) and when he's doing more emotional and character-driven scenes that explore Lucifer's inner turmoil (which is also often).

* JustHereForGodzilla: While the show suffers from a BrokenBase both critically and in the fandom, particularly when it comes to its considerable deviations from the comics, most everyone agrees that Tom Ellis's Lucifer is the best part of the show and the main reason to watch it. He's smug, audacious, sexy, manipulative, charming, and intelligent, and he knows it and will let you know it, too. Would you expect anything less from the Prince of Darkness?

** Season 5B's MusicalEpisode dropped striaght into this territory thanks to the massive overuse of AutoTune (particularly for Maze's song).

** In something of a low-key example of SpecialEffectFailure, the scene where Chloe and Trixie examined the DVD of Chloe's old movie showed Creator/LaurenGerman's face ''very clearly'' photoshopped on a DVD cover.
** In again another example of SEF, the scene where Lucifer talked to Richard in "Et tu, Doctor?" appeared to be done on a green screen.

** In the second part of season 5, Dan firmly believes he's going to Hell after he finds out [[ItMakesSenseInContext he slept with God's Wife]], even having a musical number about it ("Hell" by [=TheSquirrelNutZippers=]) in [[Recap/Lucifer2016S05E10BloodyCelestialKaraokeJam "Bloody Celestial Karaoke Jam"]]. In "[[Recap/Lucifer2016S05E15IsThisReallyHowItsGoingToEnd Is This Really How It's Going To End?]]" Amenadiel reveals to Lucifer, at [[spoiler: Dan's funeral]], that he [[spoiler: is actually in Hell]].

** In the second part of season 5, Dan firmly believes he's going to Hell after he finds out [[ItMakesSenseInContext he slept with God's Wife]], even having a musical number about it ('Hell' by TheSquirrelNutZippers) in [[Recap/Lucifer2016S05E10BloodyCelestialKaraokeJam 'Bloody Celestial Karaoke Jam']]. In '[[Recap/Lucifer2016S05E15IsThisReallyHowItsGoingToEnd Is This Really How It's Going To End?]]' Amenadiel reveals to Lucifer, at [[spoiler: Dan's funeral]], that he [[spoiler: is actually in Hell]].

** In the second part of season 5, Dan firmly believes he's going to Hell after he finds out [[ItMakesSenseInContext he slept with God's Wife]], even having a musical number about it ('Hell' by TheSquirrelNutZippers) in the musical episode. In 'Is It How It Ends?' Amenadiel reveals to Lucifer, at [[spoiler: Dan's funeral]], that he [[spoiler: is actually in Hell]].

** In the second part of season 5, Dan firmly believes he's going to Hell after he finds out [[ItMakesSenseInContext he slept with God's Wife]], even having a musical number about it ('Hell' bu the SquirrelNutZippers) in the musical episode. In 'Is It How It Ends?' Amenadiel reveals to Lucifer, at [[spoiler: Dan's funeral]], that he [[spoiler: is actually in Hell]].