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[[File:Lucifer.jpg|frame|Doesn't he look like an asshole?]]
{{quote|Note: This is about the comic by [[Mike Carey]]. For the character, see [[Satan]].}}▼
▲'''"Lucifer Morningstar speaks for himself."'''
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...
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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.
Lucifer first appeared in ''The Sandman'' #4 (April, 1989). He appeared in several storylines of that title. Also receiving guest appearances in the [[Books of Magic]], and titles featuring [[The Spectre]], and [[Etrigan]]. He received his own mini-series ''The Sandman Presents: Lucifer'' (March-May, 1999) and then graduated to an ongoing series. Which lasted for 75 issues (June, 2000-August, 2006).
In early 2016, [[FOX]] began broadcasting a [[Lucifer (series)|television series]] based on the comic.
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* [[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.
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* [[Abhorrent Admirer]]: Scoria to Mazikeen, and Spera to just about anything vaguely male.
* [[Action Girl]]: Mazikeen.
* [[A Form You Are Comfortable With]]: {{spoiler|Yahweh}} tries several on when talking to {{spoiler|Elaine}}, not that she's all that comfortable with any of them.▼
* [[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]]
* [[Exclusively Evil]]: Quite a few characters, notably Fenris and his [[Trickster]] companions Abonsam and Bet Jogie, are cruel, destructive and dishonest simply because it's what they ''are.'' Who expects embodiments of cruelty, destruction and dishonesty to be otherwise?▼
* [[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]]
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* [[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''.
* [[Apotheosis]]: The Prescene abdicates his throne, leaving his granddaughter, Elain Belloc, his only heir, to take the throne. After Fenris attacked the Silver City, she absorbed his power, thus making her the new God.
* [[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.
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* [[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.
▲* [[Exclusively Evil]]: Quite a few characters, notably Fenris and his [[Trickster]] companions Abonsam and Bet Jogie, are cruel, destructive and dishonest simply because it's what they ''are.'' Who expects embodiments of cruelty, destruction and dishonesty to be otherwise?
* [[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.
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* [[Femme Fatale]]: Lys
* [[Fetus Terrible]]: Erishad's baby, and also {{spoiler|Eikon}} and {{spoiler|Noema}}
▲* [[A Form You Are Comfortable With]]: {{spoiler|Yahweh}} tries several on when talking to {{spoiler|Elaine}}, not that she's all that comfortable with any of them.
* [[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]].
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