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God (Spoilers Unmarked!)
God
"The darker the darkness, the brighter the light."
Species: Deity
Played By: Neil Gaiman (in "Once Upon A Time"), Dennis Haysbert (season 5)
First appearance: "Once Upon a Time" (3x26, voice), "Spoiler Alert" (5x08, physical appearance)
Lucifer and Amenadiel's father. You may have heard of Him.
- Abusive Parents: Considering that he threw his own son out of Heaven and essentially forced him into running Hell for billions of years, he definitely qualifies. Plus he threw his own wife in there and made Lucifer guard his mother. He's also emotionally abusive to Amenadiel, and while willing to appear to stop Lucifer, Michael, and Amenadiel from fighting, he took no actions to prevent Uriel's death. However, Season 5 proves that God really does care and love his children, and seeks to reconcile with Lucifer.
- Adaptational Attractiveness: In the comics when he's hanging out on Earth he likes to keep his avatars indiscriminate, here he chooses a Large and in Charge black man with a Baritone of Strength.
- Adaptational Name Change: Just God here, no one calls him The Presence.
- Adaptational Sexuality: In the comics he's a Truly Single Parent, here he has an ex-wife. According to Lucifer "The Big Bang" was a lot more literal than people think.
- Adaptational Wimp: In the comics he's the single highest power in the whole multiverse, here he's apparently part of some kind of species of Cosmic Entity's as evidenced by the existence of his wife. He also suffers many of the same weaknesses as his children, such as self-actualization, and Lucifer's cameo appearance in Crisis on Infinite Earths would suggest that he is simply the creator of Earth-666 and a few other universes, while other worlds were created by different gods.
- All-Powerful Bystander: Until Season 5 he apparently never got involved in anything. Not even the destruction of the multiverse was a big enough problem for him to get involved, though it is possible that he knew the multiverse would be restored.
- Alternative Character Interpretation: In-Universe. For most of the series the only information we had on him was from his family, mainly Lucifer and Amenadiel, who both had their own ideas on what he's like: Lucifer thought he was a sanctimonious Jerkass God while Amenadiel had a more favorable opinion of him. Though in Season 2, Amenadiel, while still not agreeing with Lucifer on the subject, admits that he has come to see that their father has a tendency to overreact.
- Amazingly Embarrassing Parents: Ten times more embarrassing than Goddess, which is saying something.
- Ambiguous Situation: It's never made clear if he and Goddess are the only two members of their species or if there are others.
- Berserk Button:
- His family fighting. He makes his appearance when Lucifer, Michael and Amenadiel are fighting each other and he conjures a thunderstorm with a booming "That's enough!" when they start fighting again at the dinner table.
- He's shown a certain possessiveness towards his wife, displaying a type of hatred towards Dan because of their relations, even exploding and unexploding him on a whim. After spending time as a human, he assures Dan that he is not mad (or at least had gotten over it) over what he and his ex-wife had done.
- Beware the Nice Ones: His default personality is somewhere between relaxed and polite indifference. However, one must not forget that this is the God of the Abrahamic Faiths and while he can be good, he can also be wrathful, jealous and even petty. Just ask Dan after he exploded Dan for sleeping with his (ex-)wife before undoing it in an instant, he, Lucifer and Dan the only ones any the wiser.
- Characterization Marches On: In his first appearance, where he's voiced by Neil Gaiman, God was portrayed as a far calmer and introspective character who seems to genuinely have a plan and is an example of God Is Good. When he appears in Season 5, now portrayed by Dennis Haysbert, he's more of an example of God Is Flawed with it becoming apparent that he doesn't seem to know how to really communicate with his children and it's unclear if he really does have a plan, though it's hinted that he was encouraging events to go in a certain way. However it's possible that the Gaiman God is more how he sees himself and his inner thoughts, while the Haysbert God is how he actually is and perceived by Lucifer.
- The Chessmaster: In Season 2, it is revealed that he sent Amenadiel to help Chloe's mother get pregnant when she and her husband couldn't conceive, the first and only time he had Amenadiel do this. Amenadiel and Goddess speculate that he did this to set Lucifer and Chloe on a path to meet from the moment of her conception. For most of the show, it's unclear why that is, other than desiring for Lucifer to be happy. However with his final moments in Season 5B hinting that everything that has happened has indeed been part of his plan, it appears that it was so Chloe could help Lucifer go under the proper Character Development needed to become the All-Loving Hero that would willingly return to Hell and help the damned souls reach Heaven in Season 6, which in turn put Amenadiel on the right path to become God's successor, having learned form God's mistakes and humanity on how to be better than him. If this is true however, it meant he allowed his son Uriel to be killed to help with Lucifer's development and knowingly let Michael manipulate events to try and become the new God, which resulted in him killing Remiel.
- Casting Gag: His voice over in the special episode "Once Upon A Time" is delivered by Neil Gaiman - the creator and symbolic father of Lucifer´s comic book self.
- Crazy Jealous Guy: He's extremely not happy about Dan and his ex-wife's time together, so much so that he literally murders Dan (he undoes it afterwards, but still!). Later turns out he doesn't really care that much... Or so he pretends. Considering how fast Goddess and he reconcile, and keeping in mind the fact he exploded Dan, something which was needlessly cruel, one has to wonder if he didn't put up a front.
- Dissonant Serenity: His default mood is calm certainty. While this can come across as reassuring for some, his sons have come to see this as cold and indifferent.
- Divine Race Lift: Played with. While it turns out Lucifer's denial of his father looking like Morgan Freeman is not entirely true, his true form was never actually shown in the comics (although he did take the form of an elderly white man when speaking with Elaine).
- Easily Forgiven: He's got that all-loving thing down pat. Back in season 2 Uriel was certain that given the opportunity he would forgive Goddess (which he does when they reunited in season 5) and he never so much as bats an eye at Michael's manipulations of him or any of the other angels. The only time he ever so much as raises his voice is when Lucifer and Michael are arguing in front of him.
- A Form You Are Comfortable With: Implied. His wife's true form is a pure being of energy, and they apparently lit up the universe with their first time having sex, which means they must be similar in some way. However, when he appears on Earth, he takes a normal human form, not requiring a host or releasing all-consuming energy like his wife.
- The Ghost: Until Season Five, he's often mentioned by Lucifer and Amenadiel but never actually puts in an appearance. It ends up being Played for Drama, with Lucifer calling his father a "selfish bastard" who never bothers to even so much as speak to his children, to say nothing of the wars humanity has fought over it.
- God: The Christian god, father of Lucifer and so on and so forth.
- God Is Flawed: God Is Good, yes, but he's also this, and it is hard for him to admit it. His primary flaw is that he tries not to interfere with matters between his children, both because he's God and he respects free will, and also because he's a father and wants them to be able to live their own lives. However, he's also omniscient and truly wants what's best for them, so he will interfere in subtle ways to nudge them into a place he believes will be better for them, even if it takes a while for them to get to that point because he plays the long game. This causes his children to view him as a Manipulative Bastard who toys with their lives behind the scenes but refuses to help them or give them answers when they confront him directly, and he doesn't seem to realize that his conflicting behaviors are why they hate him and are the cause of many of their personality flaws.
- God Is Good: Father Lawrence and Amenadiel regard him as this, though at the least, he's a case of Good Is Not Nice / Good Is Not Soft. When he officially appears, he ultimately shows that yes, he truly is a Nice Guy.
- Godly Sidestep: Good luck getting a straight answer out of him.
- Hands-Off Parenting: Granted, his children are adults now (and are apparently born that way) but he still doesn't seem to make time for any of them. As Season 5B shows, this has made the family completely dysfunctional and most of his children are committed to their roles because that's all they've ever done, not because they take any real joy in their jobs or see the importance in what they do, which is no doubt contrary to his intentions. Only Azrael, and eventually Amenadiel and Lucifer have learned the lessons he wanted them to, and that's partly because they interact with humans on a regular basis. Chloe calls him on this, and he just gives her a pleasant smile and says he's glad she cares for Lucifer so much. She finds this even more infuriating and vociferously agrees when Lucifer grumbles that now she understands what he has to deal with.
- Hypocrite: In several ways:
- States he is distant and hardly intervenes out of a desire for humans and angels to take responsibility for their own decisions and the ensuing consequences. He dislikes his non-interference being interpreted as interfering through "mysterious ways." Yet, he intervenes in subtle ways to make sure people make the decisions he wants them to make so they do what he wants regardless of anything else. He works through "mysterious ways" instead of being open and honest giving other people every reason to think he is up to something.
- What exactly will set him off to bring about his wrath depends on who is doing it. Lucifer's rebellion earned exile to Hell and generally put down. Yet Michael's actions of being just as bad if not worse are ignored.
- I Want You to Meet an Old Friend of Mine: D.B. Woodside and Dennis Haysbert played brothers on 24.
- In Mysterious Ways: It's lampshaded repeatedly that no one actually knows how much he is interfering. The only confirmed event he had a hand in was having Amenadiel bless Chloe's parents so that they could conceive. In fact, the alternate universe episode "Once Upon a Time" strongly implies that he did nothing else. In that episode, the alternate universe was the result of him nudging a bullet a few inches over so that Chloe's father didn't die.
- Innocently Insensitive: When he finally appears, he comes across as a well-meaning and friendly guy who doesn't realize how hurtful some of his actions came across to his children.
- Jerkass God: Lucifer certainly thinks so, based on casting Lucifer out of Heaven and making him run Hell. In truth, he's actually quite pleasant to be around, but his omniscience makes it difficult for him to be a good father to his children.
- Karma Houdini: Despite finally admitting he was a poor father and husband and that a lot of the problems in the series were his fault nothing happens to him. In the end, he gets exactly what he wants and dumbs all problems on someone else to fix.
- Lack of Empathy: Deconstructed and then reconstructed. He truly loves his children and cares about all living beings, even demons like Maze. But being omniscient and omnipresent means he can't connect with anyone on a personal level and can't understand them, because they're not omniscient and omnipresent, and he has no idea what it is like to live that kind of existence. Combined with his Dissonant Serenity, he comes off as apathetic and smug to his children and doesn't understand why they have issues with him. It is not until he spends time as a fallible, non-omniscient human that he starts to experience a wider spectrum of feelings: the excitement of uncertainty, taste and digestion, fear of death, unpleasantness of physical pain and experiencing shock at his son's Devil-face firsthand. This allows him to realize how his behaviors have affected others, and he apologizes to his wife and sons and tells them he loves them before leaving with his ex-wife to her universe, deciding it's time he let her be in charge for a while.
- Large and in Charge: His actor is 6'4 1/2 and he is, after all, God, ruler of the universe and so on.
- Like Father, Like Son: While he would deny it, Lucifer has a lot in-common with God personality wise. They both suffer from a Lack of Empathy born of out ignorance then any genuine malice, can be apathetic to certain human customs, and tend to project their personal drama onto their police business. This is Played for Drama when Lucifer accuses him of being incapable of love, only to realize that, to his horror, he really is like his father.
- Not Me This Time: Amenadiel realizes that losing his wings and Lucifer losing his devil face had nothing to do with God, in both cases they made it happen because deep down inside they believed they deserved it.
- Not So Omniscient After All: While it's hard to tell if he is faking it or not, God is capable of being blind-sided despite being all-knowing, seeming genuinely surprised when Amenadiel realizes that Michael was Gaslighting him into thinking he was losing control of his powers. In the end, he admits that while he tried his hardest, he could have been a better father, implying that a lot of his Dissonant Serenity was him Becoming the Mask.
- Obnoxious In-Laws: Lilith states in "It Never Ends Well with the Chicken" that her leaving Adam was partly attributed to her terrible relationship with his father.
- Omniscient Morality License: Father Lawrence attributes Lucifer's banishment to a case of this, and Amenadiel (somewhat unconvincingly) maintains that his own fall from grace is a case of this as well.
- Mathematician's Answer: His default response to any question thrown at him is usually a vague platitude or a Non-Answer that only serves to confuse and infuriate other people. It is not until he had spent time as a mortal man did he start giving any clear answers, and even then they tend to fall under alternate interpretations.
- Parental Favoritism: Lucifer and Amenadiel believe he plays favourites. By the end of Season 2, it seems that he does indeed — to Amenadiel's surprise and delight.
- Parental Neglect: Gets called out on this by Amenadiel, who says he's finished trying to please his father, who isn't even around, and by Chloe, who informs him that based on her experience of Lucifer and Amenadiel (the embittered rebel who resented his father and the goody-two-shoes who spent his life desperately trying to please him), he is a phenomenally bad parent.
- Parents as People:
- If his narration from "Once Upon a Time" is to be believed, he just wants what's best for Lucifer.
- Season 5B proves this to be true. God really does love all his children, but his desire to give them free will and let them make their own choices instead made him seem distant and hard to please.
- Poor Communication Kills: As Lucifer and Amenadiel point out, a lot of problems in the series would be solved if he simply communicated. The situation with Uriel, for instance.
- Power Incontinence: He starts to lose control over his divine powers in season five which has some unfortunate side effects when he's on Earth. It eventually turns out that Michael just manipulated God into thinking his powers were failing as part of Michael's plot to usurp God and take the job for himself.
- The Powers That Be: How he operates. He almost never leaves Heaven, and though Lucifer constantly suspects everything of being one of his schemes, how much he actually does is always ambiguous.
- Race Lift: In the comics his favorite human form is a pudgy British guy with a bowler hat and umbrella, here it's a large black man. Although he did at one point speak with a British Accent.
- Scary Black Man: His real appearance is as a tall, friendly-looking black man. On the other hand, this is the most powerful being in the universe we are talking about and nobody wants to mess with him.
- Unseen No More: He is referenced and mentioned all the time throughout the series, mainly due to Lucifer tying a lot of his personal problems with God himself. After an early bird
Voice-Only Cameo in the special episode "Once Upon A Time" he finally makes a physical appearance in season 5. - Walking Spoiler: While he was full of spoilers beforehand, his official appearance in Season 5 makes him even more that.
Angels
In General
- Born as an Adult: While it's described as though they "grew up", it's closer to this. Ironically this doesn't make them any less like manchildren.
- Clap Your Hands If You Believe: Angels are shown to possess physiologies based around self-actualization. Their appearance and abilities reflect their personalities and mental states and can change as Character Development sets in. Lucifer is The Hedonist who can draw out people's desires, Michael is The Sociopath that brings out people's fears, Gabriel is a gossip with a limited level of Omniscience, and so on.
- Dysfunctional Family: While at first the Host of Heaven is portrayed as its own civilization with its hat being "Always Lawful Good", the series reveals that they are much more like this.
- Family Theme Naming: Carrying over from real world mythology, all of the angels' names end in "El". Samael (Lucifer), Amenadiel, Uriel, Azrael, etc.
- Fantastic Racism: Some reveal their hatred of humans, and with God gone, they can wipe them out if they chose. They (except Zadkiel) even laugh at Lucifer for only choosing to become God out of love for a human.
- Geas: One of the main rules imposed onto the angels by God is that they are forbidden from killing humans. While specifics are never given, Lucifer and Mazikeen imply that an Exodus-style event would occur, this being one of the reasons why Lucifer is reluctant to break this rule despite his daddy issues. After God leaves the universe, it seems this rule is no longer enforceable, Michael killing the human that stole Amendiel's necklace with nothing happening.
- The Ghost: Some angels never appear in the series, not even Raphael.
- God Is Inept: In Season 6, after Lucifer delays his coronation as God, his siblings take a hand at answering prayers in his stead. Seeing as none of them have interacted with humanity on any sort of regular basis besides Azrael (who's too busy collecting dead souls to be of any help), nor have God's omniscience to make up for that deficiency, they're horrible at it. So much so that they nearly cause The End of the World as We Know It.
- Hollywood Genetics: Despite being siblings, angels come in a wide variety of ethnicities and appearances that it would be unlikely you would tell they were related at first.
- Our Angels Are Different: All angels are the product of the two gods (God and Goddess) that created the universe and act at their biological children, though half the time they act more in a master/servant relationship with God. They are all Winged Humanoids that come in a variety of ethnicities and feathered wings. While angels are capable of having sex and have genders, they were born as adults and are naturally sterile, the only exception being Amenadiel, siring a son with Linda when his self-actualization temporarily turned him human, and later Lucifer, having a daughter with Chloe when she was temporarily given enhanced abilities due to a divine object. While they lack the raw, omnipotent power of their parents, they are capable of manifesting a variety of powers unique to themselves through self-actualization. While not as fragile as humans, there are certain things that can kill (or at least wound) them; it is implied that eating their hearts could kill them for certain (a reference to the comics), along with demon-forged weapons, Azrael's Blade, and each other.
- Personality Powers: While their parents are literal gods, angels each have their own distinct and unique abilities, though whether their parents give them these abilities or it's a side-effect of their self-actualization is kept vague.
- Superior Species: While in a lot of ways they are superior to humans in a practical sense (flight, immortality, extremely durable), they also tend to think of themselves as superior in a moral and mental capacity. If Lucifer wasn't a big enough clue for you, this is revealed later to be false, angels perfectly capable of fallibility just like humans.
Uriel
Uriel
Species: Angel
Played By: Michael Imperioli
First appearance: "Weaponizer" (2x05)
An angel who comes to Earth to convince Lucifer to return their mother to Hell and is willing to go to extreme measures to do so.
- Adaptational Villainy: Uriel is the Only Sane Man in the comics, willing to hear Mazikeen out and basically keeping the Heavenly Host together. In the series, this is not the case.
- Age Lift: It's implied by some comments that Uriel is older than Lucifer, while in the comics Lucifer was one of the first Angels.
- Archangel Uriel: When not setting up Disaster Dominoes, apparently it's usually his job to give the "Welcome to Heaven" speech to new arrivals in the Silver City.
- Awesome by Analysis: Uriel's main power is seeing and understanding "patterns" and using them to predict (and influence) events and, once he's seen someone fighting, able to defeat even the most skilled combatants.
- Deader than Dead: After being stabbed with Azrael's blade. Anyone that is killed by this blade does not go to Heaven or Hell, they cease to exist.
- Disaster Dominoes: Uriel is able to produce a chain of events set off by a minor tweak in the environment that results in what he wants to happen. He threatens to play a single note on an organ in an abandoned church that will set off a series of events resulting in Chloe's death two days later, and Lucifer knows it's not an idle threat.
- Did Not See That Coming: Says this verbatim when Lucifer stabs him with Azrael's blade.
- Fantastic Racism: Even after being attacked, Uriel has no intention of finishing him off with Azrael's blade because Lucifer is his brother and another angel, however fallen. He shows only minor regret at having to kill a human if Lucifer won't cooperate, and shows delight at having the chance to fight and kill a demon like Maze.
- Forgotten Fallen Friend: Is never mentioned by the characters after Season 2, except during an Alternate Universe episode in the third season where he is mentioned to still be alive. Even when God appears in Season 5B Lucifer never mentions him nor does the Goddess when she reappears, despite the two of them being deeply affected by his death. Finally subverted in Season 6, but even then he's only mentioned briefly by Lucifer in regards to his Hell Loop.
- Godzilla Threshold: If Lucifer won't return their mother to Hell, Uriel is prepared to kill her with Azrael's blade, which won't send the victim to Heaven or Hell but simple non-existence. Lucifer is horrified he's willing to go that far.
- Loophole Abuse: Lucifer first assumes that Chloe is safe from Uriel because he's forbidden from harming humans, but is quickly corrected that it means he can't harm humans directly. The harm coming at the end of one of a series of Disaster Dominoes, on the other hand...
- Middle Child Syndrome: While they were growing up, he often got ignored in favour of Amenadiel, the oldest child and their father's right hand, and Lucifer, the youngest child and attention-hogging troublemaker.In Season 5B, his death is not mentioned by anyone including God and the Goddess, proving that he really wasn't as special to them as their other children. In fact, it's implied that everything that happened was part of God's plan implying that he outright sacrificed Uriel in order to encourage the right Character Development in Amenadiel and Lucifer.
- Pet the Dog: He still thinks of Lucifer as his brother, admitting he would never use Azrael's blade on him.
- Race Lift: Black in the comics, white in the adaptation.
- Rogue Agent: God didn't order Uriel to Earth to force Lucifer to honor the deal or to threaten Chloe, Uriel did it on his own initiative for what he believes is the greater good.
- Too Powerful to Live: He has proven to be one of the most dangerous adversaries that Lucifer had to face so far. In his debut episode, he was able to defeat Maze, a weakened Amenadiel, and Lucifer in a fight, came dangerously close to killing Chloe twice, and would have likely succeeded if given a third chance. Ultimately, Lucifer was forced to make him Deader than Dead at the end of the first episode he appeared in.
- Well-Intentioned Extremist: Uriel really thinks he's doing the right thing, and is willing to go to measures Lucifer finds appalling, such as killing an innocent human, stealing Azrael's weapon, and condemning a soul to utter non-existence.
Azrael
Azrael
Species: Angel
Played By: Charlyne Yi
First appearance: "Boo Normal" (3x25)
Lucifer's sister, the Angel of Death.
- Affectionate Nickname: Rae-Rae is the nickname Lucifer used to call her. Ella also calls her that, but that's because she only knows Azrael by that name.
- Archangel Azrael: Azrael is the Angel of Death, whose blade destroys whoever it stabs in their entirety. She's also a nerdy, bespectacled dork who goes by "Rae-Rae".
- Artifact of Doom: Azrael's Blade causes any human who touches it to feel the need to kill, and they will do so over the most absurdly minor disagreement or annoyance.
- Asian and Nerdy: She is played by Charlyne Yi of Filipino descent and shares a lot of interests with Ella.
- Bad Liar: Her attempts to explain her presence are less than convincing, to say the least. Ella is pretty bad at spotting her lies, but even she isn't fooled by Azrael's terrible attempt to pretend to psychically contact a ghost.
- Big Brother Worship: Lucifer is apparently her favorite brother.
- Don't Fear the Reaper: She's a clingy nerd who goes by "Rae-Rae".
- Expy: An incredibly chipper Perky Goth who looks too young for her job (but really really isn't), which job is to meet every human at the time of their passing and help them pass on; she is basically Death of the Endless. Fitting, as she is also a Neil Gaiman character along with Lucifer himself.
- The Ghost: Up until the third season, she is only mentioned both in reference to her Blade and that she isn't the most pleasant person to be around. While one would assume this is because she is cold or cruel, in reality it's because she is incredibly lonely and needy.
- I Just Want to Have Friends: She wants to spend time with humans, but normally she only meets dead ones, who are rather understandably morose. When Ella survived a car crash as a child (Azrael thought she was going to die, but it turned out to be a false alarm), Azrael quickly bonded with her since she's so friendly.
- I Want My Beloved to Be Happy: Platonic version; as the Angel of Death, she doesn't have much free time on her hands, so she sent Ella to meet Lucifer instead of being with them herself.
- Nice Girl: She's an absolute sweetheart who only wants to spend time with her favorite brother and Ella.
- Not-So-Imaginary Friend: Ella believed that "Rae Rae" was just an imaginary friend she came up with after her accident. Azrael is in fact very real but can't reveal her true identity to Ella.
- Only Sane Man: Up until Lucifer and Amenadiel started hanging around with humans, she was this, being the only member of the family besides their Father that had no contempt for humanity. Indeed, while she is somewhat needy and a workaholic, she's still the most well-adjusted member of the family.
- Perky Goth: She's very chipper, and dresses in gothic clothing in her true identity. Less so as Rae-Rae.
- Preemptive Apology: In "A Chance at a Happy Ending", she apologizes to Lucifer seconds before she reaps Chloe.
- Punch-Clock Villain: In "A Chance at a Happy Ending". She doesn't participate in her siblings' war, but does reap Chloe. Not because she sides with Michael, but because that's her job.
- Samus Is a Girl: In-Universe, Linda's surprised that the Angel of Death is "a chick".
- Shipper on Deck: Of the non-romantic variety. She wants to hang out with Ella all the time, but also wants to be with Lucifer. Due to the incredibly busy nature of her work, she can't have either of them, so she sets out to make sure the two will at least have each other as friends. Lucifer assumes this is yet another manipulation from dear old Dad, but when he realizes it's what she really wants, he makes a genuine effort to get to know Ella better.
- Team Switzerland: Her domain over death means she has to stay neutral. Despite her close bond with Lucifer she doesn't take sides during his conflict with Michael and only shows up at the battle because she has to be there to reap Chloe.
- Troll: She mentions that she and Lucifer used to screw with Amenadiel all the time.
- Workaholic: The reason why she couldn't go down to Hell and reconcile with Lucifer: people are dying all the time.
Remiel
Remiel
Species: Angel
Played By: Vinessa Vidotto
First appearance: "Orgy Pants to Work" (4x06)
Another sister of Amenadiel and Lucifer. She is a warrior who doesn't like the idea of half-human/half-angel hybrids.
- Action Girl: She's a Warrior Angel, and fought alongside Amenadiel in ancient times.
- Adaptational Heroism: Remiel was an unambiguous villain in the comics, even attempting to destroy a man's soul for preaching about redemption in Hell. Here, she's much more reasonable, even leaving Amenadiel alone after he explains his situation to her.
- Affectionate Nickname: Her siblings call her "Remy".
- Braids of Action: She wears numerous small braids throughout her hair, adding to her fierce appearance.
- Broken Pedestal: She looked up to Amenadiel before the start of the series, and much of her attitude reflects how he used to feel about humanity. Needless to say, she is less than thrilled about his sudden change of heart.
- Gender Flip: Remiel was male in the comics, and was changed to female in the show.
- Enemy Mine: Remiel is not very found of Lucifer, but she sides with him during the succesion because, as much as she disliked him, she hated Michael more.
- Graceful Loser: She only backs down after Amenadiel defeats her in combat, noting that Amenadiel himself taught her that a warrior must accept defeat with dignity.
- Hidden Depths: Was apparently fond of hot tubs, according to Lucifer.
- Killed Off for Real: Michael stabs her with Azrael's blade after learning that she was acting as a mole for Lucifer. She has just enough strength to make it to Lucifer's apartment before she dies, which provides him and Chloe with enough clues to work out Michael's next steps.
- The Mole: Becomes this in Michael's faction, as while she doesn't get along with Lucifer, she can't stand Michael and doesn't want him taking their father's place.
- Pet the Dog: Despite her low opinion of humans and belief that Charlie (a human Angel hybrid) shouldnt have been conceived in the first place(as it goes against the rules) she insists that he be raised in heaven for his own good.
- Race Lift: Changed from being a white angel to an Asian one.
- Spock Speak: Speaks in a very formal, somewhat stilted manner. It emphasizes how disconnected she is from the mortal world compared to her brothers.
- Well-Intentioned Extremist: She's just doing what she thinks is best, even if she has to grievously wound Linda (though thankfully it never comes to that) or fight Amenadiel, in spite of her admiration for him.
Castiel
Castiel
Species: Angel
Played By: N/A
First mentioned: "Orgy Pants to Work" (4x06)
An angel who enjoys singing in the Silver City.
- The Ghost: He never appears in the show and is only directly mentioned once.
- Shout-Out: To Supernatural, which features the angel Castiel as one of it's main characters.
Raphael
Raphael
Species: Archangel
Played By: N/A
First mentioned: "Lucifer! Lucifer! Lucifer!" (5x02)
The Archangel Raphael, who unlike many of Lucifer's siblings has noticed the Devil has grown while on Earth.
- The Ghost: Doesn't appear, but is mentioned by Michael. This is significant as he's the only archangel not seen on the show.
Gabriel
Gabriel
Species: Archangel
Played By: Kimia Behpoornia
First appearance: "Nothing Lasts Forever" (5x14)
The Archangel Gabriel, with her gift being able to transmit messages to any place, earning her the moniker "Angel of Messages."
- Cannot Keep a Secret: Amenadiel refers to her as "The Angel of Gossip" because she has a bad habit of blabbing everything she hears.
- Dimensional Traveller: She has the ability to travel anywhere, including to other universes, to deliver her messages.
- Gender-Blender Name: Gabriel is one of the more common biblical names since it sounds less fantastical then something like Azrael or Lucifer but is normally reserved for males.
- Gender Flip: The traditionally male Gabriel becomes female in this incarnation. In "The Angel of San Bernadino", Lucifer refers to Gabriel as "him" suggesting the writers only decided to make Gabriel female in season five.
- Insistent Terminology: She's the "Angel of Messages", not "Gossip" despite what Amenadiel claims.
- The Mole: Appears to be working with Lucifer when she agrees to carry his message to the universe being run by their mother. She's actually sided with Michael and only agreed to Lucifer's request so she could enter the void and retrieve Azrael's blade.
- Stealth Pun: Being a gossip with her name one could easily call her "Gabby".
Zadkiel
Zadkiel
Species: Angel
Played By: Joel Rush
First appearance: "Nothing Lasts Forever" (5x14)
The Angel of Righteousness, Zadkiel is one of Lucifer's siblings.
- Embodiment of Virtue: He's the Angel of Righteousness and he follows this to the letter. When Lucifer appears for their father's retirement party, he acts as bouncer against him due to their history. With that said, when Lucifer admits that he is motivated by love (Lucifer famous for his honesty), he sides with him in the vote for the next God and even stands by him when it breaks out into a fight.
- Heel–Face Turn: Initially sides with Michael but when Lucifer and Amenadiel arrive at the confrontation he's the only one who switches to Lucifer's side and stays there.
- Magic Staff: His weapon is a wooden staff made from the remains of the Tree of Life.
- Not So Above It All: To stall Michael's army while they wait for Maze's cavalry to arrive, he performs a ridiculous dance alongside everyone else on Lucifer's side.
- Sibling Rivalry: Frequently belittles Lucifer and admits that he was willing to meet Lucifer to discuss the swing vote so he could see him grovel. It's implied that even before Lucifer fell, he and Zadkiel did not get along. That being said, Zadkiel does recognize Lucifer's honesty and switches over to his side when his battle with Michael turns violent.
- Token Good Teammate: He is the only angelic sibling who comes over to Lucifer's side for good reasons (recognizing that Lucifer's intentions are noble) instead of fear or hatred of Michael, even staying by his side when the vote turns violent.
Jophiel
Jophiel
Species: Angel
Played By: Miles Burris
First appearance: "Is This Really How It's Going To End?!" (5x15)
Lucifer's brother who, despite Lucifer becoming a fallen angel, still visited him on occasion.
- Adaptational Personality Change: Jophiel made his comic debut a year prior to his appearance in this show. In the comics he was a much more serious and self sacrificing character, who's role was connected to the Dreaming since he is responsible for guiding certain dreams. Here he's a Brainless Beauty who doesn't really seem to do anything.
- Better the Devil You Know: Ironically. He sides with Michael over Lucifer because, while he hates Michael, Michael was the one who can "make the trains run on time".
- Brainless Beauty: He's very handsome, and wears a robe that shows off his chest, but his siblings openly admit that he's an idiot.
- The Cameo: He returns for a brief scene in Season 6.
- Nice Job Breaking It, Hero: His attempts to grant the prayer of a prisoner that wanted to see his cat leads directly to Vincent Le Mec breaking out of prison and taking Rory hostage.
- Race Lift: Black in the comics but played by a white actor here.
- Verbal Tic: He tends to end his sentences with "yo."
Saraqael
Saraqael
Species: Angel
Played By: Ginifer King
First appearance: "Is This Really How It's Going To End?!" (5x15)
Lucifer's sister who sided with him during his rebellion.
- In-Series Nickname: "Sara".
- No Good Deed Goes Unpunished: She helped Lucifer during his rebellion in some way, but this caused God to ignore her for a very long time. As a result, she is rather wary of supporting Lucifer again.
- Not So Above It All: Almost immediately after telling Lucifer that she's above petty mortal desires, she starts fangirling over a celebrity chef that Lucifer called in a favor from.
Raziel
Raziel
Species: Angel
Played By: Kellina Rutherford
First appearance: "A Chance at a Happy Ending" (5x16)
An angel who briefly sides with Lucifer against Michael.
- Dirty Coward: A somewhat sympathetic example. She joins with Lucifer after Michael kills Remiel but her fear of suffering the same fate if Lucifer loses makes her join Michael's side again.
- Fantastic Racism: Like most angels, she's very dismissive of humans. However she is horrified when both Ibriel and Michael are fine with killing them, which is partly what convinces her to side with Lucifer at first.
Ibriel
Ibriel
Species: Angel
Played By: David Buglione
First appearance: "A Chance at a Happy Ending" (5x16)
An angel who joins Michael's side in Season 5.
- Fantastic Racism: Even more than most angels, he sees nothing wrong with killing humans after God had left the universe since that meant his rules were no longer in place.
Humans
Adam
Adam
Species: Human
Played By: Scott MacArthur
First appearance: "My Best Fiend's Wedding" (6x07)
The First Man, husband of Eve, father of Cain and Abel, and ancestor of all humans.
- Arranged Marriage: Both of his marriages were arranged by God, and neither ended well.
- The Ghost: He's discussed by Eve and Lilith, but never makes an appearance until season 6 when he shows up to try and bring Eve back to Heaven.
- It's All About Me: He's very self-important and assumes that Eve getting engaged to Maze is just her trying to get his attention.
- Lazy Husband: Eve complains that he liked to laze around, which only got worse after Heaven started getting ESPN.
- Pet the Dog: After his Character Development, he wants to walk Eve to the altar, but the latter politely declines, saying that she wants to be her own woman for once.
- Straw Misogynist: His views on women are rather antiquated, insisting that men should have control over women and regarding Eve's impending wedding to Maze as a cry for help. This is unsurprising since standards for how men should behave have evolved considerably since Adam was alive; both Lilith and Eve were literally created for him and he was the first human being on Earth, so he set a lot of standards for behavior to follow, and then he spent the millennia since in Heaven. Linda finally sets him straight that society on Earth has changed, including what it means to be a real man.
Hell
Demons
Dromos
Dromos
Species: Demon
Played By: Graham McTavish
First appearance: "Save Lucifer" (4x09)
A demon from Hell who possesses Father Kinley's body, summoned to Earth at his insistence in the belief that Lucifer needs help returning to Hell.
- Ascended Extra: In the original comics, Dromos is seen in a few panels of the Effrul arc, musing about how nice it would be to have a "proper king" (i.e. the Morningstar) again. In the series, he plays a much more important role.
- The Bad Guy Wins: Underestimated by both Lucifer and Maze, he ultimately achieves exactly what he wants: Lucifer returns to Hell and reclaims the infernal throne.
- Demonic Possession: Does this to Kinley so he can approach Lucifer on Earth. Lucifer had previously banned demons from doing this but Dromos decides that since Lucifer has renounced his throne the rules no longer apply.
- Faux Affably Evil: He is genuinely excited to see Lucifer again they first time they meet. He also has no problem turning on him the moment he proves unwilling to return with them to Hell. He isn't very friendly after that.
- Final Boss: While he only appears at the very end of the penultimate episode and the season finale, he ends up the true main villain of Season Four, using the deceased Kinley's body to wreak havoc on the human world and trying to make the newborn Charlie the King of Hell after Lucifer abdicates the throne.
- Jerkass Has a Point: Dromos reveals that Amenadiel wasn't lying in Season 1 — things are really bad in Hell without Lucifer there to run things. His methods are inexcusable, but he was right that Hell did need its ruler to keep it contained.
- Knight Templar: Dromos is adamant that Hell's demons need a king to rule them. He proves quite willing to do anything to achieve that goal.
- Loyal to the Position: Dromos is loyal to whomever holds the throne. Emphasis on the throne. When Lucifer abdicates, he immediately abandons his loyalty to him and seeks out a new king.
- The Starscream: Formerly loyal to Lucifer, he now seeks to replace him as ruler of Hell in the only way he can, be a regent for Lucifer's nephew.
Squee
Squee
Species: Demon
Played By: Cleveland Berto
First appearance: "Who's da New King of Hell?" (4x10)
A demon who possesses the body of musician Holla Bae, recently killed by Dromos looking for help in returning Lucifer to Hell.
- The Bus Came Back: Apparently returns for Maze's wedding in Season 5, though it's unclear what corpse he's possessing.
- The Friend Nobody Likes: When Maze mentions how much she hates Squee, Lucifer adds that everyone in Hell hates him.
- The Voiceless: Doesn't have two lines.
Humans
Abel
Abel
Species: Human
Played By: Lauren Lapkus
First appearance: "Infernal Guinea Pig" (3x16)
- Adaptational Personality Change: Abel in The Sandman was a timid, sweet-natured storyteller who was constantly at his abusive brother's (lack of) mercy. This version was an Asshole Victim who also happened to be a Casanova Wannabe.
- All Men Are Perverts: He spends pretty much his entire debut episode ogling and hitting on women without shame. This is actually consistent with the Sandman version, who likes peeping in on girls' Erotic Dreams but is too timid to hit on them in person.
- Antiquated Linguistics: Though he speaks English, his vernacular is pretty dated.
- As the Good Book Says...: He tries to use the "be fruitful and multiply" bit as a pick-up line. In general his dialogue is peppered with pseudo-Biblical speech.
- Asshole Victim: According to Cain, Abel was just as bad as he and they both wanted to kill each other. Accordingly when Cain killed Abel, he became the first soul to be banished to Hell.
- Back from the Dead: Lucifer brings his spirit back from Hell and puts it in a living body.
- Casanova Wannabe: He loves the ladies, but his pickup lines are anything but subtle.
- Gender Bender: He comes back in a woman's body.
- Historical Hero Upgrade: In-universe. Abel is remembered as a pious man who was murdered by his jealous brother. In fact he was just as bad as Cain and would have killed him if Cain was not a better fighter. After his death, he became the first human soul to end up in Hell.
- Jerkass: Abel is, for the lack of a better word, a total tool. Cain has spent thousands of years trying to convince everyone that Abel was the real asshat between the two of them. That being said, while Abel may be a vain dick, he's still nowhere near as evil as Cain.
- Look Both Ways: At the end of the episode, he steps into the street without looking and narrowly avoids being run over by a taxi. While walking around the taxi, he's hit by an ambulance going the other way.
- Man, I Feel Like a Woman: He starts shamelessly fondling his breasts the instant Amenadiel points out that he's in a female body.
- Mythology Gag: Abel's comic book counterpart share the same unfortunate fate of repeatedly killed by his brother with the TV version being trapped in a hell loop.
- Omniglot: Maze explains that he can speak English because she and the other demons gave him the ability to speak multiple languages to add some variety to his torture scenarios.
- Polyamory: Tells Chloe and Charlotte they can both be his wives.
