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[[File:Lucifer.jpg|frame|Doesn't he look like an asshole?]]

 

 

The only spin-off from ''[[The Sandman]]'' to not only manage long-term success but also become a critically acclaimed comic in its own right, ''[[Lucifer (comics)|Lucifer]]'' followed the life and times of the titular 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...

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.

 

 

* [[Abomination Accusation Attack]]: 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 threaten to call the cops and claim that he's a paedophile who has kidnapped her.

* [[Abhorrent Admirer]]: Scoria to Mazikeen, and Spera to just about anything vaguely male.

* [[Action Girl]]: Mazikeen.

* [[Akashic Records]]: The artificer Scoria's {{spoiler|pool where the thoughts of God flow and can be seen}} probably counts. Also the Aleph.

* [[All Myths Are True]]

* [[Ambiguous Gender]]: Innocence (the Child) of the Basanos, and its [[The Dragon|dragon]] Death of the Basanos. The Basanos as a whole however are referred to with male descriptors, such as ''brother'' or ''father''.

* [[Another Dimension]]

* [[Ascend to a Higher Plane of Existence]]: {{spoiler|Elaine Belloc, deciding to run the universe from the inside out, rather than from the top down like the last god did.}}

* [[Apocalypse How]]: They come in groups, escalating from Class Z to Z-2 to Z-3, ultimately threatening the existence of all creation''s''.

* [[The Atoner]]: 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.

* [[Badass Bookworm]]: Meleos.

* [[Does This Remind You of Anything?]]: "You are the man and the woman. This is the garden."

* [[Dream Spying]]

* [[Eldritch Abomination]]: The Jin en Mok and the Silk Man. Okay, ''you'' watch them eat if you don't believe me.

** The angels, demons and Yahweh himself seem more like this than their usual portrayals. They're just prettier.

* [[Everything's Better with Princesses]]: Elaine Belloc, granddaughter {{spoiler|and heir}} to the king of the very universe: Yahweh himself!

* [[Evil Matriarch]]: Izanami and Lilith.

* [[Exiled From Continuity]]: By virtue of being a spinoff of a [[Exiled From Continuity]] title.

** More than they can't touch or make them interact with superheroes to cheapen them. Lucifer has had a few cameos.

* [[Femme Fatale]]: Lys

* [[Fetus Terrible]]: Erishad's baby, and also {{spoiler|Eikon}} and {{spoiler|Noema}}

* [[Full-Frontal Assault]]: Lucifer has a tendency to this. It's [[Armor Is Useless|usually]] but [[Fan Service|not always]] given ''some'' kind of plot reason. (But see also [[Barbie Doll Anatomy]], above.)

* [[Gambit Pileup]]: Happens a lot, not surprisingly, given the density of [[Manipulative Bastard|Manipulative Bastards]].

* [[Psychopomp]]: Lucifer, self-announced as one during ''The House of Windowless Rooms'' arc.

* [[Rage Against the Heavens]]: The title character's major motivation: To achieve something outside his Father's Divine Plan.

* [[Retcon]]: Lucifer states in [[The Sandman]] 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.

** In [[The Sandman]], it's also established that the Silver City "is not heaven" and "cannot be visited" and "is not part of the order of created things", yet in this series, it turns out that {{spoiler|Lilith built it and you can get there by flying far enough.}}

* [[The Sociopath]]: Quite a few characters, including the title character.

* [[To Hell and Back]]: Though, being the former Lord of Hell, this isn't anything unusual for Lucifer.

* [[The Unintelligible]]: 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.}}

* [[The Un-Reveal]]: In "Eve", Spera asks Mazikeen how she and Lucifer had sex, given his [[Barbie Doll Anatomy]]. {{spoiler|Mazikeen whispers in her ear, and Spera looks shocked, in a good way. That's it.}}

 

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