Lucifer (comics): Difference between revisions

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** In the finale, Spera asks Mazikeen how Maz had sex with Lucifer despite his lack of genitals. Mazikeen leans in and whispers the answer. Spera is shocked speechless.

** Lilith also managed to have sex with Ibriel and Sandalphon (and to conceive, because God made her supernaturally fertile)

* [[Big Screwed Up Family]]: The Lilim. More metaphorically, the angels, fallen ''and'' otherwise. Also a number of smaller [[Dysfunctional Family]] units, human and otherwise. In fact, not very many happy, functional ones.

* [[Big Screwed-Up Family]]: The Lilim. More metaphorically, the angels, fallen ''and'' otherwise. Also a number of smaller [[Dysfunctional Family]] units, human and otherwise. In fact, not very many happy, functional ones.

* [[Becoming the Mask]]: {{spoiler|Cestis. She's ''not happy''.}}

* [[Beware the Silly Ones]]: The Titan Brothers.

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* [[Destructive Romance]]: Lady Lys' spirit gets permanently broken by her mortal lover Cristopher Rudd. And you thought a romance between a demon and a human would be bad for the ''human''?

* [[Did Not Do the Research]]: British police officers with revolvers holstered on their belts.

* [[Did You Just Flip Off Cthulhu]]: With the alignment flipped. Mazikeen, in the Silver City, surrounded by the assembled hosts of heaven. Passion is blasphemy, and she has a powerful need to blaspheme. So she [[Take That Kiss|kisses Beatrice, passionately, while giving the angels the finger]].

* [[Did You Just Flip Off Cthulhu?]]: With the alignment flipped. Mazikeen, in the Silver City, surrounded by the assembled hosts of heaven. Passion is blasphemy, and she has a powerful need to blaspheme. So she [[Take That Kiss|kisses Beatrice, passionately, while giving the angels the finger]].

** Also Lilith who slapped {{spoiler|Yahweh}} in the face!

* [[Disproportionate Retribution]]: Saul of the Jin en Mok was distracted by a janitor in a diner and lost his train of thought. So he gave the kid [[Artifact of Death|a hypnotic coin]] that causes the possessor to stare at it a little more each day causing them increasing levels of pleasure and pain until eventually they wither up and die. Because that's just the kind of guy he is.

* [[Distracted From Death]]: A sideplot in the third volume has an example. A pair of human friends (later lovers) run away from home and sneak into Lucifer's home in Los Angeles. Because it's not a natural place, they wind up wandering it for days without food or water. At one point, the guy wakes up, and without realizing that the girl has died, tells her to just rest, and he'll try to find help.

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

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

* [[Dream Spying]]

* [[Earth Is Young]]: The first albums manage to avert this trope, in spite of being based creationism. And also in spite of the Lucifer comic being a spin-off from Sandman. ''This'' version of the setting make it unambiguous that biblical events took place billions of years ago. Later albums kinda throw the concept of linear/objective time out of the window, returning us to the postmodernism of Sandman.

* [[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.

* [[~~Everythings~~ Better With Princesses]]: Elaine Belloc, granddaughter {{spoiler|and heir}} to the king of the very universe: Yahweh himself!

* [[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.

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* [[Light Is Not Good]]: Besides his appearance, Lucifer also likes [[Kill It With Fire|fire as a weapon]], and literally, his name means "light wielder".

* {{spoiler|[[Little Miss Almighty]]}}: {{spoiler|Elaine at the conclusion, having assumed God's mantle.}}

* [[Look Ma No Plane]]: Gaudium uses this technique to get from London to New York. To be fair, Gaudium's wings are shorter than his arms and his best flying speed in only a bit faster than a human can walk. So hitching a ride on a commercial jet is practical.

* [[Look Ma, No Plane]]: Gaudium uses this technique to get from London to New York. To be fair, Gaudium's wings are shorter than his arms and his best flying speed in only a bit faster than a human can walk. So hitching a ride on a commercial jet is practical.

* [[Luke You Are My Father]]/[[Luke I Am Your Father]]

* [[Luke, You Are My Father]]/[[Luke, I Am Your Father]]

* [[Manipulative Bastard]]: As just above, but also the Basanos, Sandalphon, Berim, the Silk Man, and a number of other characters, including Briadach.

* [[Melee a Trois]]: Between factions led by Lucifer, Lilith and Rudd, in ''Morningstar''.

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* [[Mister Seahorse]]: The archangel Michael is used as the (giant-sized) incubator for the "army of archangels" in the second book. It doesn't work out according to plan, however - it's stated that {{spoiler|all the children born were mentally and/or physically impaired, and only Elaine Belloc was a successful attempt}}.

* [[Muggle Foster Parents]]: {{spoiler|The Bellocs to Elaine.}}

* [[Multi Armed and Dangerous]]: One of the assassins sent to dispatch Lucifer in "Inferno".

* [[Multi-Armed and Dangerous]]: One of the assassins sent to dispatch Lucifer in "Inferno".

** Musubi of the Shiko-Me from ''The House of Windowless Rooms'' also qualifies.

* [[Nice Guy]]: Michael. This serves him about as well as you'd expect in context.

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* [[Shout Out]]: [[John Constantine]] is amongst the gathered parties come to the Lux to discuss {{spoiler|the portal created by}} Lucifer. Gains extra points since Constantine was one of the DC Verse characters used in the early issues of [[The Sandman]] to connect it to DC's wider world and [[Mike Carey]] wrote a lot of Hellblazer.

* [[Sibling Rivalry]]: The Lilim, and also Lucifer/Michael (though seeing the designated two most powerful creatures in being squabble like kids has a certain charm) and the host in general. Also, for comic relief version, Gaudium, Spera and Lumen.

* [[Sibling Yin Yang]]: Lucifer and Michael.

* [[Sibling Yin-Yang]]: Lucifer and Michael.

* [[Silent Bob]]: {{spoiler|Duma.}}

* [[Slouch of Villainy]]: Lucifer pulls a memorable one to provoke Michael, who is additionally annoyed at the transparency of the ploy.

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* [[Totally Eighteen]]: Passionately averted with the female protagonist Elaine. At the beginning of the story she is twelve years old, and as she grow up her age is never mentioned again. She gradually and seamlessly transitions from childhood to becoming a [[Time Abyss]].

* [[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.}}

* [[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.}}

* [[Unwitting Pawn]]: Poor Charlie, Erishad, Jill, and poor Mr. Easterman. {{spoiler|Arguably repeatedly, too. Elaine and Michael may also count. And Lucifer himself, relative to God - though anyone would be relative to ''God''. As the Almighty Himself points out, everything Lucifer knows he learned from his Father.}}

* [[The Vamp]]: Lady Lys {{spoiler|initially}}; Bet Jogie, who has the description "The woman who is both beautiful and terrible." In fact, she personifies the concept.

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** {{spoiler|Lilith}} has one that's also a [[Tear Jerker]] ''and'' a [[Heel Realization]].

* [[Villain Protagonist]]: Lucifer, natch.

* [[Villain Team Up]]: In "Morningstar".

* [[Villain Team-Up]]: In "Morningstar".

* [[Villains Never Lie]]: Lucifer

{{quote| "...when the devil wants to get something out of you, he doesn't lie at all. He tells you the exact, literal truth. And he lets you find your own way to hell."}}

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** Elsewhere in the series it is mentioned that it's impossible to destroy a soul; one can only unravel it so that it will take a millennia to reform. Considering that the Mansions of the Silence are in some ways worse than Hell, Lucifer's actions don't come off quite as bad.

** Also, who in their right mind would start lecturing at Lucifer, under the circumstances?

* [[Year Inside Hour Outside]]: Lucifer's universe runs much faster than God's, something that plays into the plot several times. The difference in the passage of time seems to change from story to story, however.

* [[Year Inside, Hour Outside]]: Lucifer's universe runs much faster than God's, something that plays into the plot several times. The difference in the passage of time seems to change from story to story, however.