History Characters / Lucifer2016MainCast

* ItsPronouncedTropay: His birth name is spelled and pronounced similar to his siblings - Mikael, but he prefers Michael as his considers the original to be just another way he and Lucifer are connected.

** All of Michael's positive character traits from the comics are given to Amenadiel (after his CharacterDevelopment).

* HeroicBsod: At the end of Season 3, [[spoiler:Charlotte's death and the discovery that not only was Pierce her murderer, but Lucifer knew all along that he was the Sinnerman]] sends Dan into one that last all the way to Season 5B. It caused him to [[TookALevelInJerkass return to his Season 1]] characterisation in Season 4 where he's far less friendly with Lucifer and others, and while in a slightly better place in Season 5A he's still struggling. The ending of Season 5A [[spoilers:gives him another shocker when he discovers that Lucifer is actually the Devil, becoming distraught with the idea that he's destined to go to Hell and being manipulated by Michael to try and kill Lucifer. Season 5B shows him being concerned and struggling with the knowledge that Heaven and Hell are real, discovering that he unknowingly slept with God's wife, and realising that GodIsFlawed, wondering what that means for the universe and the rest of humanity]]. However in Season 5B he's finally able to move through it [[spoiler:thanks to Lucifer, whose attempt to humiliate him with a long thought out prank helps Dan realise that despite all these revelations and tragedies, what matters is that he's a good man who always tries to do what he thinks is the right thing no matter how insane the situation becomes]].

!!Main Characters

[[folder:Det. Chloe Decker]]
!!Detective Chloe Jane Decker
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[[caption-width-right:350:''"It’s better to move forward than stay stuck in the past."'']]
!!!'''Species:''' Human
!!! '''Played By:''' Creator/LaurenGerman

A former actress who is a bit of a pariah around her precinct due to her insistence on investigating cases everyone else thinks are open and shut. She ends up partnering with Lucifer despite her best efforts.

* ActionGirl: Chloe, like any detective, started as an officer on the field and clearly has the training for it. She's a good shot with a gun and can pack quite a punch.
* ActionMom: Trixie's [[spoiler: ''and'' Rory's]] mother who works as a police detective.
* AffectionateNickname:
** The amount of times Lucifer addresses Chloe by her name can be counted with one hand. To date, he's only shown calling her "Chloe" twice: in "Quintessential Deckerstar" ([[spoiler:before the two have their second BigDamnKiss]]) and "Who's da New King of Hell?" ([[spoiler:precedes Lucifer giving her a LastKiss before he returns to Hell]]). "Detective" is pretty much his way of being affectionate with her.
** Before his death, John Decker's nickname for his daughter was "Monkey". Chloe carries the tradition by nicknaming Trixie the same way.
* AlternateSelf: Has one in [[Recap/Lucifer2016S03E26OnceUponATime an alternate universe]] created by God, where her father never died and she became an actress.
* AmicableExes: She and Dan become this eventually, most notably after they finally decide to go ahead with their divorce.
* AnguishedDeclarationOfLove: Gives one to Lucifer in "Who's da New King of Hell", to make him stay with her. It doesn't work, but at least he reciprocates it.
* AllTheOtherReindeer: At the start of the series the rest of the force had a somewhat low opinion of her. Besides the ''Hot Tub High School'' nude scene, she was ostracized for insisting that Malcolm is a DirtyCop in spite of his being extremely well-regarded by everyone else. It was dropped in later seasons.
* AntiMagic: [[spoiler:Proximity to Chloe makes Lucifer mortal and able to be injured or killed. He describes it as being close to her making him feel vulnerable.]]
* ArbitrarySkepticism: Played with. On the one hand, it's understandable that Chloe doesn't believe that Lucifer is the devil (given that she shoots him and he bleeds). On the ''other'' hand, she seemingly writes off his powers revolving around desire and his SuperStrength. [[spoiler:It's implied that she's realized that Lucifer really ''has'' been telling the truth about who and what he is by "A Devil of My Word" before she sees his GameFace up close and personal at last.]]
* BackFromTheDead: [[spoiler:In "A Chance at a Happy Ending", she is stabbed to death by Michael, but resurrected when Lucifer returns her soul to Earth.]]
* BetterAsFriends: Chloe and Dan get along a lot better after they finalize their divorce.
* BettyAndVeronica: In Season 4, she is the Betty to Eve’s Veronica for Lucifer’s Archie. Eve seemingly accepts Lucifer for what he is, while Chloe is still having trouble coming to terms with finding out the truth. Tries to push Lucifer towards the goodness he has shown throughout the series while Eve wants him to be the punishing Devil he was.
* BriefAccentImitation: Imitates Lucifer's RP accent in "Vegas With Some Radish" ("[[LargeHam I'm Lucifer Morningstar, I can play the piano, and I'm a fancy British man!]]") and "Til Death Do Us Part" ("Hello, drug dealers!").
* BrokenPedestal: A downplayed example. Chloe's faith in Lucifer is shaken after the events of "A Good Day to Die", when he leaves Los Angeles for Las Vegas without telling her why. She is still willing to work with him afterwards, but is more prone to criticizing him and no longer believes in his words unconditionally.
* BroodingBoyGentleGirl: While Lucifer is usually the more bombastic of the two, she sometimes serves as the Gentle Girl to his Brooding Boy as well. Whenever Lucifer alternates between denial and self-flagellation, Chloe, being down-to-earth, will serve as his voice of reason and try to make him accept his flaws.
** A notable case of this is in "A Priest Walks Into a Bar", when she comforts Lucifer by playing a piano duet with him in the aftermath of Father Frank's death.
** In "Save Lucifer", she manages to convince Lucifer to forgive himself ''while Lucifer is in his full Devil self''. Also counts as an awesome moment, since accepting both sides of Lucifer is something Chloe has been struggling with throughout Season 4.
** Somewhat flipped on its head for a while in Season 5. [[spoiler: Learning that she's a child sent by God turns her into a Brooding Girl, distancing herself from Lucifer, lashing out at times, and being generally angsty about having no control over her life. Lucifer, having dealt with most of his personal issues, tries to the Gentle Boy and help her deal with her issues, though he is amusingly bad at it.]]
* CantHoldHerLiquor: In contrast to Lucifer's constant partying, Chloe needs to be egged into drinking. In "[[GirlsNightOutEpisode Lady Parts]]", she quickly spills into InVinoVeritas. In "Chloe Does Lucifer", Chloe "Lucinda" goes undercover as "Lucinda" at a high-profile mixer event. After a glass of Prosecco, her response to socializing with Benji is a laugh which Lucifer likens to "a demented witch on crack".
* TheChosenOne: [[spoiler: When Amenadiel first meets her mother Penelope, he realizes he's seen her before: thirty-five years prior he had been sent to bless Penelope and John Decker so the childless couple could conceive, the first and only time he was ever asked to do that. He's shaken to realize that God specifically intended for Chloe to exist and encounter Lucifer, and suggests why Lucifer is depowered in her presence.]]
* ClingyJealousGirl: Though it's usually the other way around, over time, Chloe does consider Lucifer as her partner. The key word here being "her". In a few episodes, she exhibits a mild possessiveness over Lucifer whenever he is not around or intimately close with another woman. Becomes blatant in "Orgy Pants to Work", when she admits to being envious over Lucifer's and Eve's relationship.
* CloudcuckoolandersMinder: Is this for Lucifer.
* CovertPervert:
** In "Til Death Do Us Part", Chloe seems to be enjoying the sight of [[GuyOnGuyIsHot Lucifer and Pierce kissing]].
** Despite ordering him to [[PleasePutSomeClothesOn put some clothes on]], it's telling that Chloe is trying hard to avert her gaze at a buck-naked Lucifer in "Orgy Pants to Work".
* CowboyCop:
** While not one to break fingers, Chloe usually follows her gut and refuses to let something go unless she has all of the answers, and will even "look the other way" should Lucifer do something amoral in certain situations. Not to mention her own acts of breaking and entering into suspect homes without a warrant and unlawful interrogations.
** This gets deconstructed in "My Little Monkey", when her decision to follow her father's killer ends up implicating her in his murder. And again in "Quid Pro Ho", when she eventually loses the court case against the ''real'' killer because of the same reason.
* DaddysGirl: Was close of her father, John Decker, and his death really affected her. In fact, it inspired her to change her career from actress to police officer, to honor his work and help people the way he did.
* DefrostingIceQueen: Is gradually warming up to Lucifer, even admitting she does like working with him, and iverall acts much friendlier and warmer towards everyone as the series progresses.
* {{Determinator}}: She will not stop trying to catch murderers, no matter what lies ahead of her. This has earned her the admiration of several characters, like Eve and Amenadiel, but also a WhatTheHellHero from Dan, when her drive to prove Malcolm guilty endangered her and might have cost to Malcolm's grieving family.
* DisappearedDad: Her father, John Decker, was murdered while she was a teenager. "My Little Monkey" deals with this aspect of her backstory as she tries to hunt down her father's real killer ([[FrameUp as the man imprisoned for the crime turns out to be completely innocent]]).
* DivineDate: She eventually hooks up with Lucifer [[spoiler:and gives birth to his daughter]].
* EmpoweredBadassNormal: [[spoiler:In the season 5 finale, Amenadiel's necklace gives her angelic superhuman strength, enabling her to defeat Michael. She still carries this into season 6, but voluntarily gives it up upon learning that she is slowly being corrupted by its influence.]]
* ExpositoryHairstyleChange: The season 5 reveal trailer shows that Chloe cuts her hair and dyes it brown. Probably a way to [[TraumaticHaircut cope with Lucifer leaving her]].
* FairCop: She's a pretty cop, and she used to be an actress.
* FantasticRacism: She falls into this in Season Four, once she sees Lucifer's true face, plotting with a priest to exorcise him and send him back to Hell. She even asks him if he EatsBabies at one point. Her attempt to grow out of this -- and accept Lucifer the way he is -- is a big plot point in the season.
* FireForgedFriends: She ends up becoming a lot closer to Lucifer after finding him annoying and creepy initially, and also ends up becoming friends with Maze, after their initial hostilities towards each other.
* FlatEarthAtheist: Played with.
** She refuses to believe that Lucifer is ''The'' Lucifer, though she has good reason to at times since she keeps seeing evidence against it (for instance, seeing Lucifer bleed from a bullet wound she gave him). Ironically, she insists that he's hiding something from her.
** Despite this, when Amenadiel tries to give her a more reasonable explanation she sees through it immediately.
** She finally learns the truth in the Season 3 finale, though she figures it out before actually seeing Lucifer's devil face. Seeing the face finally confirms it for her.
* {{Foil}}: She's one to Lucifer. On the superficial side, he's a tall, hammy, eccentric, somewhat [[JackBauerInterrogationTechnique prone to violence]] against witnesses, supernatural being with dark hair, while she's a short, no-nonsense, fairly stoic, ByTheBookCop and a normal human with blond hair. On a more subtle difference, she's far more judgy, a ConsummateLiar, is willing to kill if she's in danger, is very good at navigating normal social situations, and dearly loved her father, while Lucifer is more open about people's quirks, WillNotTellALie, is hesitant to kill even the most vile persons he encounters, has NoSocialSkills outside of sex and seduction, and loathes his father.
* ForgottenFirstMeeting: "City of Angels?" reveals that she actually met Amenadiel five years ago, but neither recall this meeting when they meet again in "Wingman".
* ForWantOfANail: In "Once Upon a Time", while John Decker being alive is the starting point, it's ultimately Chloe's choice to pursue a career in entertainment that changes everything in her friends' lives. Her advancing to more prestigious action films ended up inspiring Ella to become a carjacker; her entry to showbiz caused her to befriend Linda and invite her to the scene as well; and as a result of not joining the LAPD, she and Dan never married and had a family, thus he continues being a corrupt cop and Trixie was never born. And that's just the backstory; not meeting Lucifer means that the events of the series never happened, causing Maze and Amenadiel to stay gruff and alienated from the human world, Charlotte still being alive and amoral, etc.
* FriendlessBackground: Chloe's no-nonsense personality is heavily implied to be caused by this. She ''was'' homeschooled, after all. When Lucifer challenges her to name three friends she can call to have a drink with, she clearly has difficulties answering it. She ends up inviting Ella, Maze, and Linda, all of whom are new acquaintances to her, so to speak.
* FriendsRentControl: Discussed and subverted. In Season 1, she lives in a very nice house that she could not afford on a cop's salary. Lucifer immediately asks if she got the money by taking bribes. It's actually her mother's house; she moved in after separating from Dan. In Season 2, after she divorces from Dan, she decides to turn a new leaf and rent a flat.
* GenerationXerox:
** Her father was a police officer in Los Angeles and her mother was a known actress.
** [[spoiler:In "Partners 'Til the End", she eventually becomes an LAPD lieutenant, a position that her father would have been promoted to had he not died, as seen in "Once Upon a Time".]]
* GlamorousSingleMother:
** Despite working as a full-time detective, she has no difficulty raising Trixie, partly since she is still on good terms with Dan, making him able to share parenting. Theirs is probably the most adjusted parent-child relationship in the series.
** Also happens in Season 6, regarding her relationship with [[spoiler:Rory. Rory absolutely adores her mother and never blames her for not informing her the real reason why Lucifer went away. This despite the probable difficulties of raising a human-angel hybrid with only one precedent in history.]]
* GoodParents: She is a good mother to Trixie [[spoiler:and Rory]].
* HeroicBSOD: [[spoiler: After seeing Lucifer's devil face, Chloe went off with Trixie to Rome, trying to reconcile the depictions of Lucifer being the embodiment of evil with the man himself]].
** And again in season five when she learns [[spoiler: that she was a miracle to be put in Lucifer's path.]]
* HomeschooledKids: In "High School Poppycock", Chloe admits that since she grew up an actress, she was homeschooled, so never had the chance to experience things like prom. Throughout the episode, she gets positively giddy at joining a high school reunion and studiously reads a series of autobiographical books about it.
* IdiotBall: Grabs this in "Who Da New King of Hell?" when she decides to [[spoiler:leave Eve, who is unarmed and alone with a baby that a bunch of demons are trying to take to Hell, by herself so she can give an AnguishedDeclarationOfLove to Lucifer, ''knowing'' that she's the cause of his mortality (which means she knows the demons can potentially hurt him when she's around).]] It's especially egregious because Chloe is usually good when it comes to avoiding SkewedPriorities in a crisis, making it look like a poorly-implemented way to show that Chloe has [[spoiler:finally accepted Lucifer's nature, devil form and all]].
* InnocentlyInsensitive: When Chloe asks Lucifer [[spoiler: if he enjoyed torturing souls in Hell.]]
* InterspeciesRomance: With Lucifer, eventually.
* JerkassRealization: She's hell-bent on proving [[DirtyCop Malcolm's]] guilt, but after a [[WhatTheHellHero calling out]] by Dan (as her investigation could cost his innocent family his benefits and pension) and coming face-to-face with his heart-broken wife, she realizes that [[ToBeLawfulOrGood the right thing is not necessarily the good thing]], and she closes the investigation against Malcolm (while planning to investigate him on her own time).
* KickTheMoralityPet: Inverted, as she's Lucifer's MoralityPet, but is the one doing the kicking when she [[spoiler:not only asks Lucifer if he enjoyed torturing souls in Hell, but she asked him if he bit the heads off of children. Even ''worse'', she initially tries to send Lucifer back to Hell.]]
* LikeBrotherAndSister: She becomes this with Ella.
* LockedOutOfTheLoop:
** Not knowing that Lucifer is really the Devil has so far caused more problems than solved them, especially in the latter half of Season 2.
** Though by Season 2, she realizes “something” is odd about her partner, she’s not quite ready to accept idea that he's the Devil, but it works so chooses to not rock the boat.
** In the Season 3 finale, [[spoiler: she sees his Devil Face full on.]]
** [[spoiler:She was unaware that she was a miracle from God for Lucifer,]] until season 5.
* MamaBear:
** When [[spoiler: Malcolm kidnapped Trixie, she went against police protocol and removed his money from evidence in order to meet with him and exchange it for her daughter's life]].
-->'''Chloe''': Trixie is all that matters.
** Her endless arguments with Maze after the two begin living together in Season 2 is because she perceives Maze's, uh, rather unorthodox hobbies as contrary to what she wants Trixie to learn.
** When her [[spoiler: KidFromTheFuture, Rory is kidnapped, she goes full-on PregnantBadass to go into a BattleCouple with Lucifer to save ''their'' daughter]].
* ManipulativeBitch: She can be an heroic one when she needs to be, like pretending to go on a date with a doctor to discreetly learn about the asylum and possibly subtly coerce him into giving out a permission. [[spoiler: She becomes a true one in the beginning of Season 4, where she tries to get Lucifer back to Hell using his feelings for her, and later tries to change him.]]
* MoralityChain:
** For Pierce, potentially. [[spoiler: He ends their relationship when he falls in love with her and feels remorse for manipulating her. He doesn't want to kill her and tells her to step aside when he's about to kill Lucifer. When he lies dying, he asks if Chloe is OK. But on the other hand, he still tried to kill Amenadiel and frame Lucifer (Chloe's best friend and the man she ''actually'' loves) for it, accidentally killed Charlotte, and said he'd kill her if he has to when she protects Lucifer. And when Chloe shoots him, he orders his men to kill her and Lucifer.]]
** The alt-universe episode "Once Upon a Time" seems to imply that she is one to Dan. It's not so much their relationship (since the two end up divorcing in season 2 anyway), but simply not being there in his life. Because she never met Dan, they never started a family together, meaning he never repented from being a dirty cop.
* MoralityPet: She can literally bring out Lucifer's humanity, and is able to talk him down from seriously hurting anyone whenever he's pissed off. Most notably in episode three of the first season; right after Lucifer throws the man responsible for the murder through a glass window, he begins to advance on him angrily. Chloe gets in the way and tells him to calm down. He looks at her, and you can see the anger fading away in his eyes when his gaze is on her.
* MoralMyopia: Initially in season 4. She thinks the right thing to do is [[spoiler:trying to send someone - a friend she's had for years, no less! - to Hell]]. She gets better.
* NayTheist:
** In "Manly Whatnots", she tells Lucifer that she doesn't believe in God or the Devil, but does believe in right and wrong.
** Her lack of a religious upbringing is probably why in Season 4, she is briefly receptive to the church's teachings about the Devil and why she struggles throughout an entire season to reconcile these beliefs with what she was familiar with.
* NeverMyFault: Downplayed in season 4. She ''does'' admit to it, but after her initial role in trying to send Lucifer to Hell comes out, she tries to play it off as freaking out "for a moment" (rather than the few months it ''actually'' was), contrasting with her [[{{Hypocrite}} usual stance]] on accepting personal responsibility.
* NotSoAboveItAll:
** After she gets close with Lucifer, she sometimes exhibits jealousy over him, most notably in "Trip to Stabby Town" when she mistakes him hooking up with Ella.
** She has mocked Lucifer's RP accent a few times, both while drunk and sober.
** In "High School Poppycock", she becomes seriously invested in a series of autobiographical teen novels and starts identifying herself with the protagonist.
* NoSell: Chloe is immune to Lucifer's abilities and charms, sexual or otherwise. The central theme of the series is that Lucifer, usually a literal walking ChickMagnet who can get away with any woman he wants to sleep with, has to struggle getting Chloe to pay attention to him the normal way, because, without his charms, Chloe sees him like most people would if not for them: a sleazy, obnoxious creep.
* OddCouple: Chloe is a very by-the-book detective, a stack contrast to Lucifer, who will freely ignore the law and disrupt her work if it means solving the case. Chloe admits that, differences aside, she needs Lucifer as her partner, as he often makes their cases successful. Though as time goes on we see that she's actually willing to take risks and go off-the-books in order to catch the killers.
* OddFriendship: With Maze, a hard-drinking and rule-breaking woman who loves chaos and violence. Things get bizarre when the two end up sharing a house.
* OldShame: In-universe, the ''Hot Tub High School'' movie she did while she was a rising actress, which Lucifer claims rivals Phoebe Cates's in ''Film/FastTimesAtRidgemontHigh''. Chloe says she became a police officer so that no one will recognize her because of that.
* OnceDoneNeverForgotten: Try as she might, she can't completely shed her reputation as a paparazzi-punching teenage actress. The fact that her mother is a well-known BMovie actress doesn't help matters.
* OneTrueLove: She was literally made for Lucifer, as Amenadiel had been sent by his father to bless her mother to ensure her conception. This ends up being deconstructed in Season 5, [[spoiler:after Chloe finds out about the circumstances of her birth. Much like Lucifer in Season 2, she begins to wonder if that means she has no real choice in her actions and that she's just a puppet of fate, and that her feelings for Lucifer aren't even real. It's only after realizing that the reason why Lucifer is vulnerable around her is because he ''chooses'' to be that she finally accepts that while she may have been made for him, it's ultimately her choice over whether or not they get to be together. Thanks to Michael's manipulations, she starts to wonder if Lucifer even loves her, since he has never said it to her, but Lucifer proves it in the Season 5 finale by choosing to sacrifice his life to bring back Chloe from the dead, with his last words being an AnguishedDeclarationOfLove]].
* PleaseDontLeaveMe: [[spoiler: Invoked at the end of season four, where a tearful Chloe finally tells Lucifer that she loves him and begs him not to go back to hell.]]
* ProperlyParanoid: She is the only LAPD cop who suspects that Malcolm Graham is not a martyr, but a DirtyCop who has been fooling everyone. Not only is she right, [[EtTuBrute her estranged husband has been working all this time to make her crazy in front of everyone else]].
* RelationshipUpgrade: [[spoiler: What Chloe and Lucifer finally undergo in "Detective Amenadiel".]]
* ShootingSuperman: {{Justified|Trope}}. She shoots at [[spoiler: Michael]] several times after realising that bullets won't kill him, as he points out after the second bullet. She knows that, but it makes her feel better.
* SkewedPriorities: As an unfortunate side-effect of carrying the IdiotBall around during the fourth season finale, she decides to [[spoiler:declare her love for Lucifer during a demon attack (which leaves Eve alone with baby Charlie, whom the demons are ''trying to kidnap'') rather than wait until everyone is safe.]]
* SleepingWithTheBoss: [[spoiler:She ends up dating lieutenant Marcus Pierce in Season 3.]]
* SlutShaming: Has an unfortunate habit of doing this, especially to Lucifer.
* StarCrossedLovers: [[spoiler:With Lucifer]] at the end of season 4.
* TogetherInDeath: [[spoiler:In a way. In the GrandFinale, she dies after a long life and enters Heaven, but decides to descend to Hell and assist Lucifer helping damned souls to salvation.]]
* TomatoInTheMirror: [[spoiler:Does not take the revelation that she was a gift from God to Lucifer well at all and makes her question her own free will until Amenadiel assures her that all it means is Lucifer can’t reflect her desires back at her.]]
* {{Troll}}: In the first two episodes she repeatedly convinces Lucifer his powers are starting to work on her, then [[NoSell pulls the rug out from under him]].
* UnwittingMuggleFriend: She's this for Lucifer, having no idea he's really the Devil. [[spoiler: Until the Season 3 finale.]]
* UnwittingPawn:
** [[spoiler:God is clearly up to something with her, but Chloe has no idea she's special in any way.]]
** [[spoiler: Cain is also manipulating her into a relationship with him, hoping that her feelings can cure him of his curse.]]
** [[spoiler: While she agrees to work with Kinley willingly out of her own fears and confusion over Lucifer, she did not know he was aware of her mortalizing effect on Lucifer. She later realizes that's the real reason Kinley needed her for his plans to send Lucifer back to Hell.]]
* ViolentlyProtectiveGirlfriend: In season 5, she's ''furious'' with [[spoiler: Dan when he shoots Lucifer.]]
* VitriolicBestBuds: With Lucifer and Maze.
* WackyParentSeriousChild: The Serious Child to Penelope Decker's Wacky Parent.
* WhatTheHellHero: [[spoiler:Does this to ''God'' when she's introduced to him in person. Instead of being awed or afraid she gives him a piece of her mind over the way he treated Lucifer.]]
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[[folder:Det. Dan Espinoza]]
!!Detective Daniel "Dan" Espinoza
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[[caption-width-right:350:''"Say you fall in love with a woman who has a cat. What are you gonna do? You accept the cat."'']]
!!!'''Species:''' Human
!!! '''Played By:''' Creator/KevinAlejandro
!!! '''First appearance:''' "[[Recap/Lucifer2016S01E01Pilot Pilot]]" (1x01)

Chloe's co-worker, ex-husband, and father of her daughter.
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* ActionDad: As involved in action as his ex-wife.
* AlternateSelf: Has one in [[Recap/Lucifer2016S03E26OnceUponATime an alternate universe]] created by God, where he never met Chloe and had Trixie meaning he had no one stop him from embracing his darker impulses. He ends up leaving Los Angeles with Charlotte after stealing Lucifer's money.
* AmicableExes: He and Chloe become this eventually, most notably after they finally decide to go ahead with their divorce, though he still obviously has feelings for her.
* TheAtoner: [[spoiler: Surrenders himself in "Take Me Back to Hell" to the LAPD to clear Lucifer's name. Actually, pretty much all of his actions in the episode.]] When Lucifer uses his power to determine what his greatest desire is, Dan reveals he wants to redeem himself.
* BetterAsFriends: Chloe and Dan get along a lot better after they finalize their divorce. In fact, Dan was the one who suggested they finalize it once and for all.
* ButtMonkey: After spending Season 1 as a mildly sinister JerkAss, he begins transforming into this in Season 2 since [[spoiler: the department can't fire or demote him without suffering its share of humiliation for his actions, so instead he's placed firmly at the bottom of the totem pole, reduced to doing every other detective's grunt work.]] By Season 3, he basically exists as a [[StraightMan target]] for the JerkAss-[[BuffySpeak ier]] characters like Lucifer and Pierce to fling witty insults at. [[RunningGag And people keep stealing his pudding!]]
** By season 5B his [[spoiler: death]] is orchestrated by Michael. What is worse, Amenadiel reveals [[spoiler: he is in Hell]].
* ByTheBookCop: If a little eager to close cases, Dan does worry more about doing his job by the laws than Chloe or Lucifer do.
* DiedInYourArmsTonight: [[spoiler:After getting shot multiple times he bleeds out in Chloe's arms. He apparently held on long enough to make it to the hospital before passing but the last the audience sees of him his Chloe holding him.]]
* DirtyCop:
** Revealed to be one in "Et Tu, Doctor?". [[spoiler:He was the one who shot Malcolm.]] Subverted when it's revealed that he only did that [[spoiler: to protect Chloe from Malcolm]], who was the real DirtyCop.
** However there are times where Dan behaves in a corrupt way such as having Perry Smith killed or threatening to shoot a man for information. During the latter he admits he had no right to be pissed that Pierce called him corrupt.
** In the alternate universe of "Once Upon a Time", Dan is a dirty cop to the core, since he never met Chloe, never became a father, and therefore never had any reason to become a better person. He is last seen driving away with Charlotte, an equally dirty attorney, with cash and gold they stole from Lucifer.
* EmbarrassingNickname: Detective Douche, which is how Lucifer addresses him in season 1 and early season 2. After the events of "Trip to Stabby Town", however, Lucifer, possibly out of respect at him managing to fend off the influence of Azrael's Blade, starts calling Dan by his full name, Daniel. Lucifer occasionally reverts to "Detective Douche" when Dan is being especially douche-y towards him. In ''Once Upon a Time'' he is instead called "Detective Dildo" by Lucifer in an alternate universe. [[spoiler: It's an indication of how deep Lucifer's grief, when he refers to him as Dan while pouring his heart out to Dr. Linda in the wake of Dan's murder.]]
* EveryoneHasStandards: Despite hating Lucifer at the time he still tries to protect him from Malcolm Graham.
* FairCop: Dan is a very attractive cop, to say the least.
* FireForgedFriends: Dan and Lucifer eventually become friends (albeit of the [[VitriolicBestBuds vitriolic variety]]) during Season 2, after spending the first season despising each other.
* HeavenSeeker: [[spoiler:His whole storyline in season 6 is wanting to find the source of his guilt and make peace with it so he can enter Heaven.]]
* HeroicBsod: At the end of Season 3, [[spoiler:Charlotte's death and the discovery that not only was Pierce her murderer, but Lucifer knew all along that he was the Sinnerman]] sends Dan into one that last all the way to Season 5B. It caused him to [[TookALevelInJerkass return to his Season 1]] characterisation in Season 4 where he's far less friendly with Lucifer and others, and while in a slightly better place in Season 5A he's still struggling. The ending of Season 5A [[spoilers:gives him another shocker when he discovers that Lucifer is actually the Devil, becoming distraught with the idea that he's destined to go to Hell and being manipulated by Michael to try and kill Lucifer. Season 5B shows him being concerned and struggling with the knowledge that Heaven and Hell are real, discovering that he unknowingly slept with God's wife, and realising that GodIsFlawed, wondering what that means for the universe and the rest of humanity]]. However in Season 5B he's finally able to move through it [[spoiler:thanks to Lucifer, whose attempt to humiliate him with a long thought out prank helps Dan realise that despite all these revelations and tragedies, what matters is that he's a good man who always tries to do what he thinks is the right thing no matter how insane the situation becomes]].
* HeroicWillpower: Azrael's blade is an ArtifactOfDoom that can induce mortals to act on trivial slights with murderous rage, but Dan was able to resist its influence after admitting that the things he was upset about were largely his own fault.
* HiddenDepths:
** In "Et Tu, Doctor?", Chloe explains that Dan more focused on his job than his family. After talking through, the two end up having a very egalitarian romantic relationship in the middle of Season 1. If it wasn't for Malcolm, they might end up together.
** Dan was able to [[HeroicWillpower resist]] the influence of [[spoiler:Azrael's blade and not stab Lucifer.]] Very impressive for a mortal.
** Dan is revealed to be attending improv sessions and is pretty good at it.
** Dan of all people listens to rap music and tag-teams some bars with Ella when one of their cases points towards a rapper they both listen to.
* {{Hunk}}: Has a ''very'' impressive build. Noticeable whenever he is paired with lanky Lucifer, particularly in "My Little Monkey", where [[ShirtlessScene the two visit a bathhouse]].
* IDidWhatIHadToDo: His reason for [[spoiler:{{gaslighting}} Chloe was to protect her from Malcolm. And presumably any other dirty cops Malcolm is associated with.]]
** Gives the same reasoning to Chloe during Season 5 [[spoiler:for shooting Lucifer, trying to kill him on Michael's instructions.]]
* InSeriesNickname: Most people call him "Dan". Lucifer is the only one who regularly uses his full given name, Daniel (that is, when he's not calling him "[[EmbarrassingNickname Detective Douche]]").
* InTheBack: [[spoiler: While running away from mercenaries sent by Michael, he gets shot in the back by one of them and later dies in Chloe's arms.]]
* JacobMarleyApparel: [[spoiler:After Rory brings his spirit back to Earth he gets stuck as a ghost wearing the clothes he died in.]]
* {{Jerkass}}:
** Is [[CharacterizationMarchesOn initially]] one to Chloe at every turn, with a side of DeadpanSnarker. He calls her out when he thinks she and Lucifer are sleeping together. He gets better as time goes on.
** He is also one to Lucifer in much of season 1, hence his nickname "Detective Douche". Relapses back again for much of season 4, as his grief over Charlotte's death causes him to blame Lucifer over everything, until Linda convinces him to confront his issues in "Save Lucifer".
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Does help Chloe pursue a case off-the-books when he thinks she's right, and in season 3, interrupts his own vacation to help Maze when she's on a job in Canada.
* KilledOffForReal: [[spoiler:In Season 5B he is shot several times by his kidnapper in the back and bleeds to death in Chloe's arms, on Michael's orders]].
* LikeBrotherAndSister: In "Is This Really How It's Going To End?" he addresses Ella as "[[BilingualBonus Mi hermanita]]" while trying to set her up with an old friend of his.
* LockedOutOfTheLoop: Has no idea that Lucifer is really the Devil. [[spoiler:At least until Season 5, courtesy of Michael causing Dan to accidentally see Luci's Devil face, at which point Dan has a HeroicBSOD.]]
* TheMourningAfter: Dan spends much of season 4 mourning after Charlotte and is either a jerk (Lucifer) or distant (everyone else) to others. Upon Ella's urging, however, he seeks therapy with Linda in "Save Lucifer" and mostly recovers from this state by the season finale.
* MrFanservice: Downplayed but he has a few shirtless scenes in the series.
* NoGoodDeedGoesUnpunished: In Season 5B he volunteers to help Chloe with a particularly difficult case, this ends up with him [[spoiler: being kidnapped, tortured and shot, later dying on Chloe's arms]].
* OddFriendship:
** Develops a pretty strong friendship with Amenadiel, despite him being a angel and Dan a dirty cop. However Amenadiel likely appreciates that he's trying to redeem himself with Amenadiel doing the same after his actions in Season 1.
** Despite not really getting along and Maze being far closer with Linda, Dan and Maze do bond since both are technically the TokenEvilTeammate of the main cast. As a result Dan feels more comfortable coming to her over his more darker actions since Maze is understanding and accepting.
** Surprisingly, despite at first hating him and not liking his close relationship with Chloe, Dan comes to like Lucifer with their teasing taking on a more friendly tone and they bond over similar interests. [[spoiler:This is why he was so angry to learn that Lucifer always knew that Pierce was the Sinnerman after Charlotte's death, with Season 4 showing their friendship broken though it improves in Season 5]].
* {{Otaku}}: He enjoys the ''Body Bag'' ninja movies. He bonds with Lucifer over this.
* PapaWolf: His relationship with Chloe is complicated but he still cares about her and he loves their daughter Trixie. He tries to close cases to protect Chloe. He threatens Lucifer not to do anything that would put Chloe or Trixie in danger or he will make Lucifer pay.
* PayEvilUntoEvil: After John Decker's real murderer gets an innocent verdict, Dan and Maze arrange for the Russian mob to find out he'd killed one of their men to cover his tracks and arrange for them to abduct and, presumably, take their revenge. [[spoiler:See also Season 5 when he's manipulated by Michael into trying to kill Lucifer - going by Lucifer's eons old reputation as opposed to the evidence he's personally seen over the course of the time he's known him, due to Michael's abuse of his natural fear for his soul and the safety of his friends, ex, and daughter.]]
* PetTheDog: As mentioned above, goes to Chloe to help her and genuinely seems to still care about her.
* RedemptionDemotion: At the end of season 1, he confesses to his complicity in Malcolm's plans and is arrested. The next season reveals that the LAPD releases Dan but demotes him from detective to ordinary officer.
* RoaringRampageOfRevenge: As he states in "A Devil of My Word", he will not rest until he catches the person who murdered the woman he loves.
* SexForSolace: [[spoiler:He makes out with Ella in "Devil Is As Devil Does" amid his grief over Charlotte's death.]]
* ShipperOnDeck: After he divorces Chloe, he supports her hooking up with Lucifer. He even consoles him when she starts dating Pierce, though Dan states that's mainly because he doesn't like Pierce.
* TogetherInDeath: [[spoiler:After resolving the last of his guilt he ''finally'' makes it to Heaven in the penultimate episode. The series finale shows him reunited at long last with Charlotte Richards.]]
* TokenEvilTeammate: Downplayed since that role mainly goes to Maze, but Dan is a DirtyCop in Season 1 and struggles with atoning for his former actions for the rest of the series. It doesn't help that he often makes questionable choices that haunt him.
* TookALevelInJerkass: He relapses back to his Season 1 douche-y self after [[spoiler:Charlotte's death]], blaming Lucifer for everything and even [[spoiler:(albeit accidentally) almost getting him killed in a reckless attempt to make Lucifer face justice for assaulting a previous suspect]]. Gets {{Lampshade|Hanging}}d by Lucifer in 'Devil Is As Devil Does'.
-->'''Lucifer:''' ''(introducing him to Eve)'' And that's Dan. He's a douche again.
* TookALevelInKindness: He mellows out a lot in Season 2, and even becomes friends ([[VitriolicBestBuds somewhat]]) with Lucifer. After he TookALevelInJerkass in Season 4 he returns to this characterization in Season 5, [[spoiler:though he does have a FreakOut after learning Lucifer really ''is'' the Devil]].
* TrademarkFavoriteFood: Pudding. Even seeing a man boiled alive in a big vat of it can't put him off the stuff for very long.
* UnwittingMuggleFriend: He's this for Lucifer, having no idea he's really the Devil. [[spoiler:At least until Season 5, courtesy of Michael]].
* VitriolicBestBuds: While hating each other back in Season 1 and nearly always arguing, Dan and Lucifer are genuinely friends.
* WrongGenreSavvy: [[spoiler:He pretends to accept Rory's deal to take him from Hell to Earth in exchange for helping her kill Lucifer, but immediately tries to warn the latter the moment he arrives at Lux. Only to learn too late that, as a ghost, he can't interact with anyone but celestials and demons, and Lucifer isn't there anyway.]]
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Maze]]
!!Mazikeen of the Lilim/Mazikeen "Maze" Smith
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/mazikeen.png]]
[[caption-width-right:350:''"Self-worth comes from within, bitches."'']]
!!!'''Species:''' Demon
!!! '''Played By:''' Creator/LesleyAnnBrandt
!!! '''First appearance:''' "[[Recap/Lucifer2016S01E01Pilot Pilot]]" (1x01)

Mazikeen, better known by her nickname Maze, is a demon who works as Lucifer's bodyguard and a bartender at Lux. She is mostly annoyed that Lucifer isn't doing anything interesting anymore. After coming to realize she needs to strike out on her own and not rely on him anymore, she gets work as a bounty hunter for hire and moves in with Chloe.
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[[folder:Dr. Linda Martin]]
!!Dr. Linda Martin
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[[caption-width-right:350:''"Sometimes we need to lose something to understand its value."'']]
!!!'''Species:''' Human
!!! '''Played By:''' Creator/RachaelHarris
!!! '''First appearance:''' "[[Recap/Lucifer2016S01E01Pilot Pilot]]" (1x01)

A therapist, whom Lucifer charms to get the name of Delilah's boyfriend with the promise of sex. She then becomes his therapist...initially in exchange for sex.

* AbsurdlyElderlyMother: Gives birth to baby Charlie in her forties. Then again, [[HalfHumanHybrid the baby's father is an angel]], so...[[note]]Plus Rachael Harris really ''did'' get pregnant at around 50, [[WrittenInInfirmity so they wrote her pregnancy into the show.]] [[/note]]
* AllTherapistsAreMuggles: Zig-zagged after she learns about the {{Masquerade}}. She starts out believing that Lucifer is deluding himself with a harmless fantasy, but decides to play along with his "metaphors" to help him through his other issues. When she learns the truth in "Monster", she has a FreakOut, but comes to accept that Lucifer and Maze are still the people she knows them as and resumes working with them as their SecretKeeper.
* AlternateSelf: Has one in [[Recap/Lucifer2016S03E26OnceUponATime an alternate universe]] created by God. Because Chloe became an actress in this universe, she eventually met Linda and helped her get her own reality show where she acted as a therapist for celebrities. This version was last seen betraying her morals for ratings by revealing information to a client that made him upset.
* AmicableExes:
** She and Lucifer remain on good terms after she breaks off their sex-related deal, coming to care for each other as friends.
** Less so with [[spoiler:her ex-husband Reese. She's clearly trying to be amicable but has to keep stressing the ex part to him, as he's obsessed with winning her back.]]
* BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor: She wants Lucifer to tell her the truth. [[spoiler:She gets it, and she doesn't take it well.]]
* ButICantBePregnant: [[spoiler:Is ''very'' surprised to learn that she's pregnant with Amenadiel's baby in Season Four, largely because nobody thought it was possible for a Celestial to procreate with a human. She embraces impending motherhood pretty quickly.]]
* ConstantlyCurious: By the episode "Trip to Stabby Town", [[spoiler:Linda has gotten over the horrifying shock of realizing that Lucifer actually ''is'' the Devil, and now spends the entirety of their sessions probing him for details about Hell and Heaven and so on, much to Lucifer's annoyance.]]
* DarkAndTroubledPast: In "A Good Day to Die" she claims that there's a chance she'd get sent to Hell because of as-yet unspecified things she's done. Later in season 5 it is revealed that she was speaking about her daughter, that she gave birth to when she was 17, then she gave up for adoption.
* DeadpanSnarker: She has her moments, usually when her patients and friends alike start to get on her nerves.
-->'''Linda:''' I'm a therapist, being taken for granted is in the job description. Like, for example, when a friend uses your lunch break for free therapy and doesn't say "thank you".
* GoMadFromTheRevelation: She undergoes instant catatonia upon seeing Lucifer's devil face for the first time and becomes a TalkativeLoon for the next several days, babbling incessantly about divine-related questions. However, as pointed out by Maze, it is amazing that Linda still manages to function normally after the experience, since people who see Lucifer's true face usually go straight-out ''insane''.
* HeroicBSOD: Linda tries to get Lucifer abandon his "metaphors" in the episode "Monster" and pleads for his full honesty. [[spoiler:Upon seeing Lucifer's true face, [[CriticalPsychoanalysisFailure she completely freezes up]], unable to manage anything more than a quivering lip and a ThousandYardStare.]]
* HeroicWillpower: Though not immune like Chloe, she can avoid the instant-seduction that Lucifer's hypnotic eyes does to most people. While it does still instantly break down her professional demeanor, Lucifer notes in the first episode that she's a "complex" one, and he ultimately has to throw in the offer of sex to get the information he wants.
* HotLibrarian: The good doctor dresses professionally, has her [[PrimAndProperBun hair up]], and wears glasses...at least until it's cuddle time with Lucifer.
* InterspeciesFriendship: Linda, a human therapist, with a demon, Maze, for a best friend.
* IntimatePsychotherapy: As mentioned above, Linda gives Lucifer therapy sessions in exchange for sex, despite it being a huge violation with therapist protocol to have sexual relationships with patients. She eventually breaks off the sex deal, choosing to keep the therapist-patient relationship professional.
* MakingLoveInAllTheWrongPlaces: In the first half of the first season, is usually seen half-naked after having a little cuddle-time with Lucifer in her office as payment for his therapy. Lucky for them, the couch there happens to be a futon.
* MamaBear: While she would do anything for Charlie, [[spoiler:in "A Little Harmless Stalking", she attempted to shoot Adriana's boyfriend Owen for framing her daughter when he believes she doesn't have it in her.]]
* MoralityPet: To Maze. As bloodthirsty and sadistic she is, Maze considers Linda her best friend and is very protective of her. When they have a fallout following [[spoiler:Linda and Amanediel's secret relationship]] and Maze is clearly upset with her, [[AwLookTheyReallyDoLoveEachother she shows she still cares about Linda]] when [[spoiler:Cain]] threatens to kill her to get to Maze.
* MyGreatestFailure: [[spoiler:Leaving her daughter right after she gave birth to her.]]
* NervesOfSteel: While seeing Lucifer's devil face terrified her at first, Maze is impressed with how Linda is taking it since most people usually ''[[SanitySlippage go insane]]'' afterwards. Even though she's clearly shocked and becomes a TalkativeLoon for the following days, she quickly recovers, goes back to living her life ''AND'' continues being Lucifer's therapist, which in itself is pretty impressive for an average human.
* NiceGirl: Sex-related deal aside, she genuinely does want to help Lucifer and cares about him to some degree beyond sexual attraction. As of "Et Tu, Doctor?", she's decided to keep their relationship professional. As the series goes on, she proves to be the most consistently kind, forgiving and reasonable person around.
* NotThatKindOfDoctor:
** She's a licensed M.D. as a requirement to be a practicing psychiatrist but she doesn't actually practice medicine. Her last real medical experience was her medical education years ago. In spite of this, Lucifer and his family keep coming to her because she's the only doctor they know.
** In "A Good Day to Die", despite stating that she has no experience as a physician whatsoever, she is hired to revive Lucifer using defibrillators.
* OddFriendship: In spite of their vastly contrasting personalities, she and Maze become close friends. This continues even after [[spoiler: she finds out that Maze is a demon.]]
* OnlySaneWoman: In addition to being good at helping the other characters process their often-tumultous feelings, she is usually a lot more self-aware and constructive in dealing with her own than they are.
* PalsWithJesus: [[spoiler:She remains on good terms with Lucifer and Maze even after finding out their true natures. To say nothing of her romantic relationship with Amenadiel, which eventually culminated in them having a child together. Becomes almost literal in season 6 when Lucifer and later Amenadiel become the heir of the Almighty throne]].
* ParentalAbandonment: [[spoiler: In season five, she reveals she gave birth to a baby girl when she was younger. When the baby was handed to her she realised she wasn't strong enough to raise her and walked out of the hospital, leaving the baby with the nurses.]]
* SeenItAll: By Season 6, Linda is only a bit surprised [[spoiler: when she met Lucifer and Chloe's daughter who time-traveled from the future]], and even then she quickly recovered.
* ShipperOnDeck: Implied to be one for Lucifer and Chloe as of Season 2. [[spoiler: She's the one who tells him that Chloe is the reason why he doesn't want to leave LA, then she wants to hear about his date with her.]] Confirmed, [[spoiler: when she learns Chloe and Lucifer finally had sex in “Our Mojo,” she’s elated and is celebratory over the news.]]
* StrongFamilyResemblance: [[spoiler: Linda's daughter is a carbon copy of her, including haircut and glasses.]]
* SurprisePregnancy: She is visibly surprised upon finding out that she is pregnant, because the father is Amenadiel, an angel.
* TeenPregnancy: [[spoiler:Linda had a baby daughter when she was 17. It was unplanned and the identity of the father is unknown.]]
* ThousandYardStare: Gets a big one upon [[spoiler: seeing Lucifer's true face]]. When he looks back upon leaving her office, she hasn't moved an inch.
* UnwittingMuggleFriend: She's this for Lucifer, having no idea he's really the Devil [[spoiler: until the episode "Monster", where he shows her his true face.]]
* WhatTheHellHero: Lays into both Amenadiel and Lucifer for all their lies and insane antics by the time of the season finale. At the start of Season 2, she criticizes Lucifer's tendency to use her as a sounding board to justify his own obsessions while ignoring her advice.
* WrongGenreSavvy: A mild example, but [[spoiler: after she finds out that Lucifer is really the Devil, she keeps acting like she's in a far more serious show than she is, treating the angels and demons and deities with reverence and awe and trying to understand the religious ramifications of it all. Since she's actually in a supernatural dramedy where the heavenly host is more like a BigScrewedUpFamily and the metaphysics are far less important than their soap opera-ish shenanigans, this comes across as [[StraightMan hilariously misplaced.]]]]
[[/folder]]

!!Celestials

[[folder:Goddess]]
!!Goddess
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/charlotte_richards.png]]
[[caption-width-right:350:''"The last thing I want to do is to hurt my children."'']]
!!!'''Species:''' Deity
!!! '''Played By:''' Creator/TriciaHelfer
!!! '''First appearance:''' "[[Recap/Lucifer2016S02E01EverythingsComingUpLucifer Everything's Coming Up Lucifer]]" (2x01)

The Goddess of all Creation, Mother of the angels and God's ex-wife. Lucifer considers her just as culpable for his banishment as God, since she didn't do anything to stop it. When she was banished in turn, he happily imprisoned her in Hell without asking for an explanation. While Lucifer was away from Hell, she escaped and ended taking up residence in the body of the recently deceased Charlotte Richards on Earth.
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[[folder:Ella Lopez]]
!!Ella Lopez
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/ella_lopez.png]]
[[caption-width-right:350:''"I mean, you know Ella, there's just something about her. She's so positive, she makes you feel like..."'']]

!!! '''Played By:''' Creator/AimeeGarcia
!!! '''First appearance:''' "[[Recap/Lucifer2016S02E01EverythingsComingUpLucifer Everything's Coming Up Lucifer]]" (2x01)

A forensic specialist who starts working for the LAPD at the beginning of the second season. She used to live in Detroit and steal cars, but gave up criminality before moving to Los Angeles. She is a faithful Catholic, though she loses her faith for a while in later seasons.

* AbsentMindedProfessor: She's highly intelligent and very good at her job, but has a habit of losing focus or going on unrelated tangents in the middle of conversations. She also mentions that she almost forgot putting on pants when she was called to the precinct in the dead of night.
* AllGirlsWantBadBoys: Admits her tastes run this direction in Season 5, most likely as a result of her rough childhood. She's not exactly proud of it (hence the lack of a romantic life until that season) and tries to move out of it by dating a nice journalist she meets, named Pete. [[spoiler:Then it turns out Pete is a sociopathic SerialKiller]].
* AllLovingHero: Ella is a sweet girl who gives free hugs, loves her friends and colleagues and is liked back by everyone. Lt. Pierce finds her extremely annoying though, [[spoiler:which is a hint that he is not a good guy at all]].
* AlternateSelf: Has one in [[Recap/Lucifer2016S03E26OnceUponATime an alternate universe]] created by God. In this world she was inspired by Chloe's character in a film to become a criminal and a mechanic, [[Main/MisaimedFandom while ignoring how Chloe's character eventually joined the police]]. This version is more rough around the edges, but for the most part seems to be the same person she is in the main universe [[InSpiteOfANail and still has a friendship with Lucifer]].
* AmbiguouslyBi: When Linda mentions being a phone sex operator in the past, Ella comments "I would totally call that". In another episode, to celebrate Chloe's birthday she hires her a male stripper, then joins in on the dance by grinding on Chloe. When Eve gives her a ShutUpKiss to calm her down, she clearly enjoyed it.
* BigBrotherWorship: She looks up to her oldest brother, Jay, and refuses to believe that he has turned to criminality, despite all evidences pointing to the contrary.
* BreakTheCutie:
** [[spoiler:Charlotte's death and the reveal that ''Pierce'', the man she looked up to and defended, was the one who killed her, causes her to break her faith in God for supposedly allowing this to happen.]]
** [[spoiler:In "Spoiler Alert", Pete tells her that she has a darkness inside herself, which he can tell when they first met.]]
* BrokenPedestal:
** At Marcus Pierce in "A Devil of My Word" upon his outing as the Sinnerman, though she doesn't get to tell him off since he is killed by Lucifer shortly afterwards. She does, however, lose her faith in God, as she blames him for allowing Charlotte to be shot by Pierce.
** A smaller case in "The One With the Baby Carrot", when her favorite comedian turns out to be plagiarizing his jokes.
---> '''Ella:''' I defended you! J'accuse, Bobby Lowe! J'accuse!
* BunnyEarsLawyer: She's quirky and excitable, but she's definitely good at her job.
* CantHoldHerLiquor: She's the lightest weight of all the girls when it comes to partying. Moreover, she ''definitely'' can't hold her drugs. When Eve gives her a tab of Lucifer's "house special" (read: molly), she starts tripping out her eyeballs to the point where she's completely useless during a hostage crisis. When Lucifer tries to "sober" her up with some cocaine, while it ''does'' make her slightly more productive, on top of the previous trip, she's bouncing around like a jackrabbit - basically, rather than countering the effects of the X, it just made her ''worse''.
* CrisisOfFaith: She undergoes one in the wake of Charlotte's death. Over the course of Season 4, she starts doubting God and the Bible, stops attending church and wearing her cross necklace, and spirals into drug use and alcoholism (before finally proclaiming that God either isn't real, or doesn't care about humanity). She recovers by the end of the season, however, and concludes that it isn't God's job to stop bad things from happening, but rather to give humanity the strength to get through said bad things.
* CuddleBug: She loves a good hug, and will hug every person she meets.
* DarkAndTroubledPast: She used to boost cars with her brother's gang before she switched sides and joined the LAPD. Various casual lines imply further, quite extensive contacts into the criminal underworld even after her HeelFaceTurn. Then again, she grew up in [[WretchedHive Detroit]].
* DarkIsNotEvil: Her opinion on the devil, in spite of her Christian faith, which Lucifer appreciates.
* EasilyForgiven: In Season 5, she was angry at Lucifer for leaving without saying goodbye, nor answering her texts, [[spoiler:due to returning to Hell]]. When he[[note]][[spoiler:actually Michael]][[/note]] returns, she calls him out until Chloe vouches for him explaining he had "family business" to deal with. Ella accepts his apology and is back to being chummy with him, but threatens not to do that to her again.
* EurekaMoment: She gets one during "Everything's Coming Up Lucifer" to figure out where the crime weapon(s) are coming from. In "Welcome Back, Charlotte Richards", she has another when she realises the pudding company's secret ingredients mix to make a very dangerous poison.
* {{Fangirl}}: She's this to Marcus Pierce. So much so that when he suddenly yelled at her to be quiet, she became defensive and acting out, until Marcus apologized. [[spoiler: But she lost all respect and admiration for him when she finds out he shot Charlotte Richards.]]
* FlatEarthAtheist: Becomes this in season 4 as she loses her faith and openly declares how there's "no God, heaven or Hell", completely unaware that not only she makes these complaints around the actual Devil and his angel brother, her childhood best friend was the actual Angel of Death.
* FunTShirt:
** She usually wears brightly-colored t-shirts with fun graphics or slogans on them. In "My Brother's Keeper", she and Trixie bond over the fact they're wearing the same t-shirt.
** In the imaginary reenactment of Linda's book in "Save the Devil, Save the World" she's depicted wearing a generic black tee with the words "Happy T-Shirt" in bold white letters, a placeholder for her genuine t-shirts.
* GenkiGirl: Very upbeat and energetic, for someone whose job is to analyze crime scenes. When she first met Lucifer, she gave him a hug.
* GodivaHair: When she and Lucifer go undercover in a nudist club in Season 4, her long hair and some SceneryCensor are the only things that keep the episode from getting slapped with a higher rating.
* TheHeart: When she learns the truth about Lucifer and asks why she was kept out of the inner circle, Dan says she is the inner circle.
* HeroWorship: She really idolizes Marcus Pierce, in spite of [[JerkWithAHeartOfGold his personality]]. The revelation that [[BrokenPedestal her hero is actually LA's most feared crime boss]] causes her to lose her faith in God.
* HiddenDepths: Besides the many casual references to her former criminal past, "Deceptive Little Parasite" reveals that she's seeing a therapist. "Vegas With Some Radish" implies she has some kind of mental illness (possibly schizophrenia) that she's dealt with through gambling and other vices in the past [[spoiler: though more likely this had to do with having an invisible-to-others angel/ghost for a friend.]]
* IChooseToStay: In "Boo Normal", she nearly resigns from the LAPD to move back to Detroit, but Ray-Ray and Lucifer convince her not to.
* IconicSequelCharacter: Debuts in the second season and quickly became a core member of the cast.
* LikeBrotherAndSister:
** As she tells Chloe: "You're the sister I never had".
** She eventually also develops this dynamic with Lucifer. In "My Brother's Keeper", upon finding out that Jay Lopez, Ella's ''real'' brother, has been hiding his criminal record perfectly, Lucifer threatens him from lapsing into criminality again, as it will shatter Ella's view of her "perfect" brother, and tells him that [[IfYouEverDoAnythingToHurtHer he will be watching]]. In "Boo Normal", Ella's ghost friend Ray-Ray -- who is really Lucifer's sister, Azrael -- convinces Lucifer to treat Ella like he does with her.
* LockedOutOfTheLoop: Has no idea that Lucifer is really the Devil. She assumes he's actually a ''very'' dedicated method actor doing research for a role playing a crime-fighting devil.
** [[spoiler:By season 6 she's finally worked out the truth and eventually goes on a drunken rant where she calls her friends out for not trusting her enough to tell her themselves.]]
* MassiveNumberedSiblings: Ella, plus her four brothers.
* MsExposition: Helps provide background on a case thanks to any evidence that's brought to her.
* NearDeathExperience: She almost died in a car crash as a kid. [[spoiler:This was when she met Azrael. Azrael expected her to die, but she survived, and then Azrael just kept coming around because Ella was more fun than the usual dead souls]].
* NerdGlasses: Shows up at the precinct wearing a huge pair when Lucifer and Chloe call on her in the middle of the night, suggesting she's normally wearing contacts.
* NiceGirl: She's nicest of the cast. Despite being religious she’s best friends with Lucifer. Granted for most of the series she didn’t know he was actually the devil, she still takes his words with more kindness than most Christians would. And when she figures out the truth she’s more hurt that it was kept from her than angry. In short, she’s welcoming to anyone and willing to give them a hug upon meeting them.
* NoSenseOfPersonalSpace: A minor example, but her first meetings with Lucifer, Maze, and Amenadiel have her giving them big hugs.
* NoodleIncident:
** Various lines suggest that Ella was involved to an extent in the criminal world before turning a new leaf and joining law enforcement.
** In "Quid Pro Ho", she doesn't act surprised upon seeing a decapitated head in a box, casually stating "I wish that was my first".
* OOCIsSeriousBusiness: After Pierce scolds her in "The Sin Bin", she turns withdrawn and quiet. Charlotte quickly takes note of this and, upon learning the reason, [[TheReasonYouSuckSpeech chews out Pierce]] hard enough for him to apologize to Ella.
* PalsWithJesus: [[spoiler:Her childhood best friend was Azrael, the Angel of Death.]] Not to mention her friendship with Lucifer.
* ThePollyanna: Ella states in "Deceptive Little Parasite" that, in spite of her bubbly personality, she has been seeing a therapist for a while.
* {{Polyglot}}: Speaks Spanish and French.
* ReformedCriminal: Casually states that she used to steal cars in one episode, then later reveals inside knowledge of illegal street racing, explaining that "stealing cars is no fun if you don't drive them really fast." In "Vegas With Some Radish" Lucifer finds out she counts cards and has previously been banned from a casino; her immediate identification of an iconic slot machine's payout jingle implies a history with casinos and gambling in general.
* SexForSolace: In "Devil Is As Devil Does", she makes out with Dan. As later episodes reveal, this was to cope with their respective issues (Ella with her crisis of faith, Dan with his loss over Charlotte).
* SheCleansUpNicely: In Vegas, even Lucifer is wowed by how Ella wears a stunningly hot dress showing off her legs.
* ShipperOnDeck: For Lucifer/Chloe in Season 2 but jumps to the Chloe/Marcus ship in Season 3. Jumps back Lucifer/Chloe after she tells her why she accepted and rejected Marcus's proposal.
* TokenReligiousTeammate: She's the only character who's openly and explicitly religious, adding a layer of irony to her not being aware of how many of her friends are actually divine beings. [[spoiler:Part of the reason she's so angry at being kept in the dark is because she already believed in the divine and would have accepted the truth if told.]]
* UnwittingMuggleFriend: She's this for Lucifer, having no idea he's really the Devil. She's also this for Azrael, again, having no idea she's really the Angel of Death.

[[folder:Lt. Marcus Pierce ('''Spoilers Unmarked!''')]]
!!Cain/Lieutenant Marcus Pierce
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[[caption-width-right:350:''"You made me realize that life is worth living, and I will do anything to stay alive."'']]

!!! '''Played By:''' Creator/TomWelling
!!! '''First appearance:''' "[[Recap/Lucifer2016S03E1TheyreBackArentThey They're Back, Aren't They?]]" (3x01)

The new lieutenant as of Season 3, a stone-hard and seasoned veteran of the force who has also seen military service. However, in the mid-season finale, a new revelation about him causes Lucifer to revaluate their positions respective to the other -- he's actually Cain, cursed by God to walk the earth forever as punishment for killing his brother. He came to L.A. to make contact with Lucifer after hearing about how the Devil becomes vulnerable in the presence of a certain detective, hoping to find a way to finally end his curse.

* ZeroPercentApprovalRating: He's an enormous asshole, and as a result very few people like him. When Ella tries to cheer him up with a compliments box from everyone in the precinct, the only nice things people said about him were his [[{{Hunk}} impressively large, shapely arms]].
* AdaptationalAttractiveness: In ''ComicBook/TheSandman1989'' (which properly introduced Lucifer to the [=DC=] universe), Cain was thin, reedy, and had a mass of WildHair. This version of him's a {{Hunk}}. Furthermore, his mark is on his arm this time, rather than his forehead.
* AdaptationPersonalityChange: Cain was a rather manic storyteller in ''The Sandman'', prone to constantly (and brutally) killing his brother, Abel, in horrible ways because it was in his nature to do so.[[note]] However, it was implied they may have been the {{Anthropomorphic Personification}}s of the ''idea'' of Cain and Abel, and not the real beings.[[/note]] This version of him is a stern, cold DeathSeeker. "Infernal Guinea Pig" adopts this idea by having Maze and Lucifer reveal that Abel's torture in Hell is Cain murdering him over and over in various scenarios.
* AdaptationalSuperpowerChange: In the comics, Cain's curse made it so that anyone who harmed him would be given LaserGuidedKarma thrice-fold, making it so that Cain was not so much invulnerable as everyone was too afraid to hurt him for fear of cosmic retribution. Here, the mark gives him CompleteImmortality.
* AdaptationalVillainy: In the comics, Cain was a PunchClockVillain who only ever harmed Abel (who, being a dream, would come back to life shortly thereafter) because it was his ''job'' as the archetypical "First Victimizer." Otherwise he was a [[AffablyEvil nice guy]] (albiet with a dark sense of humor) who kept his loyalties to his master Dream and guarded the House of Mysteries. Here he is a genuinely bad guy who's better qualities were either fleeting or [[FauxAffablyEvil faked]] to put on the appearance of a normal guy. He is eventually revealed to be the real Sinnerman -- a SerialKiller moving across America as a long-term gambit to find a way to die -- and when he loses his immortality, he is very quick to regain it no matter who he has to hurt to do it.
* AlternateUniverseReedRichardsIsAwesome: His alternate self is none other than [[Series/{{Smallville}} Superman]], who is as different from him as they come.
* AmbiguouslyEvil: For the first part of Season 3. He's a right {{jerkass}} most of the time, but does show some softer moments. Then TheReveal in "The Sin Bin" that he's really Cain, the first murderer, throws all presumptions about him out the window. The Sinnerman ''was'' his right-hand man, but he went rogue and Cain shot him for it. Additionally, he admits he did abduct Lucifer and leave him in the desert, but claims he has no idea how his wings returned and what happened to his devil face. WordOfGod implies he's really just playing GambitRoulette, trying to find someone who can kill him and not being sure if either Lucifer or Chloe fit the bill.
* AndIMustScream: Cain is sent to Hell, as Lucifer points out that him killing Charlotte Richards instead of Amenadiel is an action he deeply regrets inside.
* ArcVillain: For Season 3. Though he's a VillainyFreeVillain, he's the primary source of Lucifer's antagonism in the season by coming between him and Chloe. He's also TheManBehindTheMan to The Sinnerman, the season's DiscOneFinalBoss; though he split from Pierce before the season, Pierce is the one that raised and trained him. He advances to actual villainy in the season's later episodes, when he manipulates Chloe into a relationship with him, begins plotting with Maze to frame Lucifer for his murder and force him to return to Hell, and then later turns his attention to killing Amenadiel to regain his mark.
* BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor: What makes it possible for him to die? Finally having something to live for.
** Similarly, Cain's season long goal was to die to avoid the earthly loop. When he gets killed by Lucifer, his ultimate fate is a Hell loop of him repeatedly killing Charlotte due to his immense guilt.
* BecomingTheMask: He pretends to be in love with Chloe because he believes that her love will make his mark disappear, at which point he'll be able to die. However, he ends up falling for her and finds that he can't bring himself to use her. It's this selfless act and not Chloe's love that finally gets rid of his mark.
* BelievingTheirOwnLies: He claims he won't go to hell because he [[IDidWhatIHadToDo doesn't feel guilty about anything he's ever done]]. It's later revealed that it was his own guilt which was keeping the mark in place all along.
* BettyAndVeronica: {{Downplayed|Trope}}. Though he is kind of a {{Jerkass}}, he seems to be the Betty to Lucifer's Veronica towards Chloe's Archie, being a no-nonsense, responsible cop, who's ready to sacrifice himself for Chloe very early on. However ...
** BettyAndVeronicaSwitch: TheReveal that he is the Sinnerman and [[BiblicalBadGuy Cain, the first killer]] firmly plants him as Veronica, being a manipulative asshole, the leader of a very dangerous crime ring, and only wanting to get with Chloe for his own self-interest.
* BrokenPedestal: Becomes this to Ella, after she learns that he murdered Charlotte.
* {{Cain}}: Marcus Pierce is actually Cain, the biblical first murderer.
* CainAndAbel: Played with. While he and Abel are the {{Trope Namer}}s, they were ''both'' the Cain. Pierce claims that Abel wanted to kill him as much as he wanted to kill Abel, Pierce was just the one of them that did it.
* CanonCharacterAllAlong: "Marcus Pierce" is an alias -- his real name is Cain.
* ColdHam: He's stoic and poker-faced to an impressive fault, even with ridiculous things coming out of his mouth at times.
* TheComicallySerious: Where most of his humour comes from.
* DeadpanSnarker: When it's not the above, his humour comes from this. For instance, when Lucifer is telling him the story of Cain and Abel:
-->'''Pierce:''' I know this story. The ending sucks.
* DeathSeeker: He's really had his fill of the whole "WalkingTheEarth" deal he's been cursed with and has been trying to kill himself since the Bronze Age (roughly 5000 years ago on the outside). None of it has stuck, up to and including throwing himself into ''an active volcano.'' Ironically after finally losing his mark, he becomes afraid to die and tries to do anything he can to stay alive, including making a plan to get his mark back. He tells himself and others that he's staying alive for Chloe (because he loves her), but it's strongly implied that he's afraid of dying because he knows where he'll end up...
* DieLaughing: After Lucifer gives Cain a well-deserved TheReasonYouSuckSpeech, Cain just laughs in his face before finally dying. It's creepy as heck.
* DirtyCop: He maintains his network of contacts as the Sinnerman while working for the LAPD, though he makes little use of them in an attempt to go clean. He fully becomes this in this final episode when he sabotages the investigation against him using those contacts.
* DyingCurse: His words are short, but he gets a last laugh when he points out that Lucifer, who killed him and is about to get back his devil face after giving Cain a TheReasonYouSuckSpeech, [[ArmorPiercingResponse is just as bad as him]].
* FairCop: He's rather handsome.
* {{Foil}}:
** Tom Ellis says he's one to Lucifer; a disgraced son, cast out and cursed by God and humanity.
** Also with regards to their relationships to Chloe; Lucifer falls in love with her due to a genuine affection for her and personal growth on his part; Pierce at first only pursues Chloe for selfish reasons, because he thinks being with her would make his mark go away, but backs off when he developed actual feelings for her. And in regards to Chloe's miracle status: when Lucifer finds out, he backs off because he fears God was forcing her to have feelings for him, and doesn't want to take away her free will. Meanwhile Pierce plans to use her miracle status for his own gain, and manipulates her into a relationship with him.
* FreudianExcuse: He's a cold and aloof individual with very little tact for other people's feelings and fakes sincerity when he sees a long term benefit in it because [[WhoWantsToLiveForever he has lived for so long, survived so much and has seen so many people he grew to care about die without him that he has since grown numb to the human experience]].
* HealingFactor:
** He can re-grow from anything, including jumping into a volcano. "That was a rough six months."
** Lucifer asks what would happen if he were cut exactly in half. Pierce explains that there wouldn't be two of him -- only one side would heal. He has a theory about why, but Lucifer just sums it up as "Wolverine rules."
* TheHedonist: A former one. Part of why he wants to die is because he's done and tried everything on Earth: food, drugs, sex, etc., and such there's nothing new and thrilling enough left to stave off the despair and boredom.
* HeelFaceDoorSlam: His romance with Chloe seems to genuinely start turning him into a good person. But when she changes her mind on marrying him, he quickly slides back into villainy.
* {{Hunk}}: Ella once tries to cheer him up by having people write nice things about him on cue cards. She draws three at random and they're all complimenting his muscular arms.
* {{Hypocrite}}: Him giving Dan a hard time for his actions in Season 1 and calling him a corrupt cop. While [[HypocriteHasAPoint he certainly has a point]], it comes off in a worse light after the revelation that he is secretly the Sinnerman.
* ImmortalityHurts: He claims that when killed, he ''feels'' all the pain that comes with a mortal wound. It's just that he heals from them. The mid-season premiere demonstrates this with him using several towels to soak up the blood oozing from his chest as he slowly recovers from where Lucifer stabbed him. On another occasion he says he tried to kill himself by jumping into a volcano, and it took him six months to recover.
* InLoveWithTheMark: Pierce wanted to make Chloe fall in love with him in order to break his curse. He ends up falling for her and breaks things off with her because he can't bring himself to use her like that, and it's actually this act of selflessness which takes his mark away.
* IRegretNothing: The fact that Pierce does not regret anything he has done in his life means that should he die, he would go to heaven. Ironically, in his plan to kill Amenadiel, he kills Charlotte Richards who was TakingTheBullet. This one action is the only thing he really regrets, which means that after dying, he would be sent to Hell.
* JerkAss:
** His EstablishingCharacterMoment has him casually dismissing all of his coworkers who gathered to welcome him, for starters.
** You know he's a jerkass when his mother Eve not only refused to mourn his death, but also left Heaven with the expressed hope of getting together ''with his killer''. Granted, Lucifer is an ex of hers from before Cain was born, but ''still''.
* JerkassHasAPoint: On the other hand, he does a good job of pegging all of them accurately. He's just unpleasant about it.
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: He's stoic and cold most of the time, but does show softer moments at times. The last arc of the season reveals him to be a full on JerkWithAHeartOfJerk.
* KickTheMoralityPet: He really does love Chloe (at least he believes he does) and doesn't want to hurt her. But when she stands up to him in Season 3's finale, he tells her he ''will'' kill her if he has to.
* KilledOffForReal: In the season 3 finale, he is finally killed by Lucifer.
* LargeAndInCharge: The lieutenant is really bulked up, to the point that his impressive arms become a meme in-universe. Not to mention he's played by 6'3" Tom Welling, of a size with Tom Ellis.
* TheManBehindTheMan: He's the one behind the Sinnerman.
* MarkOfShame: His birthmark on his arm, a partly-complete circle, is his Mark of Cain. He covers it up with a faux-military tattoo.
* MeaningfulName: One of the suspected etymologies for the name "Marcus" comes from the Etruscan word "mar", meaning "to harvest". Cain was the first farmer.
* MetaphoricallyTrue: The ExactWords type. Pierce claims that the Sinnerman killed his brother. Since he's the ''true'' Sinnerman and the TheManBehindTheMan to the one the LAPD captured, he's technically correct -- the Sinnerman ''did'' kill his brother.
* MrFanservice: Not as much as Lucifer, but he does have his moments where it's highlighted how hunky he is.
* NameOfCain: UrExample, TropeMaker and TropeCodifier all in one.
* NotSoStoic: He's usually pretty stoic, but when Chloe confronts him about his dislike of her, he can't help but laugh a little as he explains how he actually thinks very highly of her. While recuperating from a gunshot later in the episode, he's far more warmer to her, and can't hide his amusement in giving Dan a shitty job.
* OneDegreeOfSeparation: He doesn't know Amenadiel, but Amenadiel knows him: he was the one who gave Cain his Mark. When Lucifer makes the comment that Amenadiel is God's favorite son, Cain figures this out himself.
* RasputinianDeath: Cain has been trying to kill himself since the bronze age and so far nothing has worked. He's tried falling through helicopter blades, acid baths, being eaten by wolves, and so forth. His most extreme attempt was to jump into a volcano, but as he puts it, he always [[HealingFactor grows back]].
* TheReveal: At the end of "The Sin Bin" we find out who and what he really is: Cain.
* SeenItAll: Tells Amenadiel that he's this trope -- he's explored everywhere on Earth, tried every kind of food, sex, music. At this point he's ''bored''.
* SitcomArchNemesis: He hates Dan. Given any opportunity, he'll bring up Dan's mistakes, sarcastically mock his actions, or make it clear how little he thinks of him. After telling Chloe that he won't give her the promotion she wanted because the position she was hoping for would waste her time and is generally a job reserved for shitty detectives not going anywhere, he happily gives Dan the job, who obliviously accepts it under the belief he's finally getting through to Pierce. Since Dan is the one who first figures out that Pierce killed Charlotte, it's safe to say that this attitude came back to bite him in the ass.
* TheSociopath: While Pierce is capable of genuine emotions and attachment, it takes a ''lot'' to get under his gruff and aloof exterior. At best, he comes across as the "tough but fair" veteran cop capable of keeping a cool head under stressful situations because he has no fear of death and [[SeenItAll can't be surprised after eons of living]]. When Chloe cured him of his curse (and by extension, his passion for living), it does not take much for him to want his immortality back and he goes to great lengths to get it back, even if it meant endangering Chloe's life shortly after breaking up.
* TheStoic: Generally always calm and reserved. Because after living for thousands of years and having SeenItAll, little surprises him or gets under his skin.
* TattooConcealsScars: He initially conceals the mark with a military tattoo. As an added insult, his healing factor always dissolves the tattoo after a few weeks, meaning he has to frequently reapply it.
* TragicVillain: Downplayed, but ultimately he is a victim. He wasn't the remorseless killer history remembers him as and was simply the one to win the fight with his brother, but he was cursed with immortality as punishment. It doesn't excuse his actions, but overall he didn't really deserve the punishment he got.
* {{Tsundere}}: Ella thinks he's this for Chloe because of his occasional protectiveness and interest in her. Actually it's because he's pegged Chloe as a potential candidate to kill him.
* TimeAbyss: He's been trying to kill himself since the Bronze Age.
* {{Unperson}}: Having lived for thousands of years, Cain has gotten pretty good with vanishing and reinventing himself under a new persona. The Season 3 finale notes that if Chloe and Lucifer aren't careful about bringing him to justice, Cain will just walk away and they'll never find him.
* VillainousBSOD: When he ''really'' gets down in the dumps following Lucifer's dissolution of their plan, he becomes an ''absolute'' social black hole. Solemn brooding? Check. Scratchily singing ''Music/{{Kansas}}'''s "Dust in the Wind" in his office while playing his guitar and depressing everyone in the precinct as a result? Check. Going off on long, extremely colorful tangents about the meaninglessness of everything? Double check.
* VillainyFreeVillain: For most of the season he doesn't do anything really ''evil'', aside from stringing Chloe along in a false relationship. But he's still largely a {{Jerkass}} to much of the cast, and is interested in getting rid of Lucifer so he can pursue Chloe unopposed. He sheds this status in the final episodes of the season when he begins plotting to murder Amenadiel and turns on the protagonists.
* WalkingSpoiler: A '''''massive''''' one due to his true identity. He's Cain, the world's first murderer, marked by God and cursed to walk the earth as an immortal. Further, he's the ''real'' Sinnerman, and the Sinnerman Lucifer and Chloe were tracking in the first part of Season 3 was just one of his men that went rogue.
* WhoWantsToLiveForever: He's seeking someone able to kill him because this trope is in effect for him. At least, at first; after his mark disappears and his relationship with Chloe ends, he does everything he can to get the mark back and become immortal again.
* WorthLivingFor: Chloe rekindles his interest in living. At first he wants to be mortal and live a normal life with her, but once their relationship sours he wants to get his mark back so he can keep on living.

[[folder:Det. Malcolm Graham]]
!!Detective Malcolm Graham
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[[caption-width-right:350:''"Do you know what happens when you die? Well, if you lived a life like I did, you go to Hell."'']]

!!! '''Played By:''' Creator/KevinRankin
!!! '''First appearance:''' "[[Recap/Lucifer2016S01E07Wingman Wingman]]" (1x07)

A LAPD officer who was suspected to being a DirtyCop. He rejoined the force after coming out of a coma.

* AndIMustScream: Went to Hell after he died for being a DirtyCop, where he was starved and secluded from everything and everyone. It was around 30 seconds in real time, but in Hell, it felt like ''years''.
* AnOfferYouCantRefuse: Lucifer offers Malcolm one of his special coins so that he can't go back to Hell [[spoiler:thanks to Amenadiel's threats.]]
* AnythingButThat: Malcolm's entire MO. Having gone to hell for 30 seconds was enough for him to truly appreciate life and food and to never go back there. Malcolm willingly does Amenadiel's deeds and will do anything else just to not go back to Hell.
* ArsonMurderAndJaywalking: When he tells Dan about his time in Hell. Also counts as SkewedPriorities:
--->'''Malcolm''': They starved me. No food. No other people. No nothing. ''No TV!''
* AxCrazy: After joining "Team Lucifer" as he puts it, he [[spoiler:develops into a serial killer who targets Satanists.]]
* BackFromTheDead: Technically he died, and was in Hell for a full 30 seconds before Amenadiel pulled him out.
* BigEater: Dying and coming back made him appreciate food even more than before, and he is always seen eating large portions ever since. When he goes to a restaurant, he takes aroud four plates ''for himself''.
* BitchInSheepsClothing: Adored by his coworkers and family and considered a hero in the Palmetto case, only Chloe knew Malcolm was not the good cop he was pretending to be and wanted to investigate him. When he comes back from his coma, she is proven to be ''absolutely correct''.
* CameBackWrong: At the end of Season 1, Maze and Chloe meet Malcolm's wife (after dodging shotgun shells from her, thinking they were her wayward husband), who says that he's been different ever since he came out of the coma. New, barely unboxed tech is strewn around his house, and Maze says she's seen similar all-consuming behavior like this before.
* CopKiller: [[spoiler:He shot his own partner Anthony Paolucci, made it look like a suicide, and framed him over the Palmetto incident with a suicide note in "Et Tu, Doctor?"]]
* DirtyCop: What Chloe suspected of him. And she was ''absolutely right.''
* DomesticAbuse: Strongly implied by this in "Take Me Back to Hell". When Chloe and Maze break into his house, they find the entire house full of delivered junk and his wife trying to shoot at them with a shot-gun, thinking they were Malcolm. Apparently he has been different since his time in the hospital, having spent all of their money and is going to leave everything behind after Chloe and Lucifer set their sights on him.
* TheDragon: For [[spoiler:Amenadiel]] in his plan to kill Lucifer.
* DragonAscendant: Becomes the final bad guy [[spoiler:after Amenadiel decides to turn himself around]].
* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: Subverted. While he's shown to have a wife and son who mourned him when they unplugged him, he never mentions them in his reasons to stay out of Hell. It's even implied that he (at least psychologically) abused his wife after his coma by how she tried to gun him down when she mistakes Chloe and Maze for Malcolm having came back home. His son is not even shown, so who knows what he must be thinking of his father, now...
* EvilRedhead: An AxCrazy DirtyCop with the red hair and PornStache to match.
* FatalFlaw: [[VillainousGlutton Gluttony]]. Malcolm self-describes as someone with a "hunger for life". It's not just the food, it's about [[{{Greed}} the money, too]]. It doesn't matter how many people he kills and lives he ruins: it's never enough for Malcolm to get satisfied. When he gets offered a second chance at life, he only sinks himself deeper into his amorality and violent tendencies, sealing his place after death in Hell, and it's well-deserved.
* FauxAffablyEvil: Acts overly chummy and amiable after his coma, but it's clearly a paper mask that barely hides how extremely fucked in the head he is.
* FinalBoss: Serves as this for the first season after [[spoiler:Amenadiel's HeelFaceTurn.]]
* GigglingVillain: Always bursts into awkward laugh fits, to show how deranged he is.
* GoMadFromTheRevelation: He was DraggedOffToHell in that brief 30-second pause between dying and getting dragged back up to the land of the living. [[SanitySlippage He really didn't like it]].
* KilledOffForReal: At the end of Season 1, after he [[spoiler: kidnaps Trixie and tries to kill Chloe and Lucifer and nearly does kill Amenadiel]], Chloe shoots him full of lead. Lucifer makes it perfectly clear that he's going to Hell and won't be coming back this time.
* KillerCop: [[spoiler:Reveals in "#TeamLucifer" that all the killings of the Satanists was his doing]]. Since he's always been a DirtyCop, who knows how many other people he's killed as part of his shady business...
* LaughingMad: When confronted with [[spoiler:his killings, devolves into this toward Lucifer.]]
* NoSell: He is completely unfazed by Lucifer's GameFace. He justifies it by noting he has literally been to Hell and back.
* NoSenseOfPersonalSpace: To add to the creepy factor surrounding his character, he always gets dangerously close to whoever he aims to intimidate. Even ''Lucifer'' gets creeped out.
* PornStache: And when it's combined with his [[CharacterTics trademark wink]], it manages to disturb even Lucifer.
-->'''Lucifer''': It's the wink ''with'' the porn 'stache that's sending the wrong message.
* SanitySlippage: While he was always bad to the bone, his trip in Hell really unscrewed the last of his mental stability.
* SerialKiller: Becomes one after [[spoiler:getting the Pentecostal Coin from Lucifer]], where he targets [[spoiler:Satanists]].
* SuspiciousSpending: After awakening from his coma, he spent almost all of his and his wife's money on ''many'' expensive technology.
* TookALevelInJerkass: While he was no saint to begin with, his trip in Hell changed him for the worse, making him far more violent and unhinged he ever was.
* UngratefulBastard: While Amenadiel ''did'' resurrect him to make him do his dirty deeds, Malcolm not only does not try the slightest to change his amoral views of life to make sure he doesn't return to Hell, he also goes as far as to [[spoiler:''stab'' Amenadiel, who is the reason he's still living in the first place]].
* WalkingSpoiler: His revival [[spoiler:at the hands of Amenadiel and eventual descent into madness]] is a twist that influences the entire last half of the first season.
* WildCard: Becomes this after [[spoiler:getting the Pentecostal Coin, randomly killing and acting in a manic way.]]
* WouldHitAGirl: He outright tells Dan [[SheKnowsTooMuch he was gonna kill Chloe]] [[spoiler:for discovering his shady business at Palmetto]], and he killed [[spoiler:Rose Davis, a Satanist, as part of his murder spree]]. He also threatens to kill [[spoiler:Trixie, [[WouldHurtAChild a young girl]]]].
* WouldHurtAChild: [[spoiler:Not only did he kill teenagers ForTheEvulz, he also threatens Chloe that if she won't give him his money, he will kill Trixie.]]
* YoureInsane: ''Lucifer'', out of all people, states it verbatim when Malcolm tells him [[spoiler:he killed the Satanists and framed Jacob Williams to impress him]].

!!Others

[[folder:Trixie Espinoza]]
!!Beatrice "Trixie" Espinoza
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[[caption-width-right:350:''"Don't you always say that when somebody's going through something, that's when they need their friends most?"'']]

!!! '''Played By:''' Creator/ScarlettEstevez
!!! '''First appearance:''' "[[Recap/Lucifer2016S01E01Pilot Pilot]]" (1x01)

Chloe's and Dan's daughter, and one of the few children Lucifer isn't immediately annoyed by.

* AdvertisedExtra: Despite being a main cast member in all four seasons, Trixie has a bad habit of not showing up in the majority of the episodes. She appears in only half of Season 2's episodes (9/18) and ''less than a half'' in Seasons 3 and 4 (10/26 and 4/10 respectively). She leaves that area once Season 5 rolls around, no longer being part of the main cast.
* AffectionateNickname: Her parents are fond of calling her "Monkey". [[spoiler: Her future sister Rory called her "T".]]
* ChildrenAreInnocent:
** Chloe isn't happy upon learning that Lucifer accidentally made Trixie aware of the word "hooker."
** [[invoked]] Much is made of her not knowing of Chloe's OldShame, but it turns out that [[HyperAwareness she knows already]]. How?
---> '''Trixie''': I have the internet. This isn't even in HD.
** She's always excited to see Lucifer. Whether this is just her natural propensity as a child to trust, because her mother works with him, or something more significant remains to be seen.
** She's excited to see [[spoiler:Maze's true face]] in "Monster", thinking that it's part of an elaborate costume.
* CommutingOnABus: Scarlett Estevez is no longer credited as part of the main cast in season 5, so Trixie only appears as in five out of the sixteen episodes, the good majority of them being only cameos.
* CoolBigSis: Rory seem to worship Trixie, calling her T.
* CuddleBug: Hugs both Lucifer (to his discomfort) and Amenadiel.
* EasilyForgiven: [[spoiler: She forgave Maze for calling her a "stupid little brat". She couldn't stay mad at her.]]
* FromTheMouthsOfBabes: She has quite a mouth.
* GirlsLoveChocolate: In her case, chocolate cake. In "Favorite Son", Chloe and Dan find her with chocolate smeared on her face after secretly eating a piece of her birthday cake. In the same episode, when Dan wakes up naked in Chloe's bed after Maze knocks him out, he hides in his daughter's bedroom and tries to convince her to play a game of "sneak Daddy out of the house" Trixie asks for a year of unlimited chocolate cake as payment. Dan agrees. In "Pops", she doesn't resent being sent to her room because it means she'll be able to eat chocolate cake in bed. Dan later offers her a slice as a peace offering when he's late to pick her up. According to [[spoiler: Rory she's still fond of it several decades in the future as she correctly guessed where Trixie hid her chocolate.]]
* HeroWorship: She likes Lucifer at first sight and is gleeful when he and her mother grow closer.
* HollywoodGenetics: She has brown eyes while both of her parents have blue. Technically, it's not impossible, but it's vanishingly rare, as both Chloe and Dan have to possess the same specific genes for brown eyes to make it work.[[note]] In the unaired pilot, Dan is played by a brown-eyed actor, but he got replaced by the blue-eyed Creator/KevinAlejandro in the actual series.[[/note]]
* IntergenerationalFriendship: Trixie is a child. Maze is a thousands-years old demon. May apply to Lucifer too, up to a point.
* LockedOutOfTheLoop: [[spoiler:Despite her close relationships with Lucifer and Maze she's unaware of their true natures and by the series finale she's still in the dark. It's reasonable to assume however that she does eventually find out given that her sister turns out to be an angel.]]
* MeaningfulName: Beatrice is the saintly woman from ''Literature/TheDivineComedy'' who gives her arrogant lover the power to go through Hell and ascend to God's unimaginable presence.
* MoralityPet: Maze likes her and cares for her. Let that sink in.
** She's also one for her father, Dan. He quit being a CorruptCop and started trying his best to straighten out his life for her sake.
* OddFriendship: With Lucifer, who [[ChildHater hates children]]. In one episode she went to see him (and hanging with Maze) to cheer up after her mother and grandmother get into a fight over her.
* OnlyKnownByTheirNickname: As she notes in the first episode, everyone generally calls her Trixie, rather than Beatrice.
* OracularUrchin: She seems strongly drawn to the celestials and as Chloe's daughter is a [[spoiler: miracle child]] one generation removed. She also says very insightful things. [[spoiler: The very first thing she says upon meeting Amenadiel is to compliment his necklace, which winds up being the third piece of the flaming sword.]]
* PracticallyDifferentGenerations: Though [[spoiler: Rory's comments imply that the two are close, the fact remains that the two have a 14 year age difference.]]
* PutOnABus: She disappears a quarter of the way through season 5. It's offhandedly mentioned by Chloe that Trixie is currently staying with her grandma. Upon her return in Season 5B, she appears in only three episodes.
* ShipperOnDeck:
** She is the first person to ship Chloe with Lucifer. She even interprets her (accidentally) shooting him in "Manly Whatnots" as a SlapSlapKiss.
** In Season 3, she picks up on Dan's and Charlotte's continued mutual attraction pretty much instantly and does everything in her power to get them to act on it.
* SoapOperaRapidAgingSyndrome: Downplayed, as no one says anything about it, but during the "one month" between the end of season 3 and the beginning of season 4 it's pretty plain that Scarlett Estevez aged quite a bit more than that.[[note]]The filming dates for the two seasons are a little under two years apart, meaning Estevez aged from about 9 to about 11.[[/note]]
* StepfordSmiler: In "Deceptive Little Parasite", she revealed that she's afraid for her mom ever since she almost died. So she pretends to be okay in front of her parents.
* TrademarkFavoriteFood: She ''loves'' chocolate cake.

[[folder:Charlotte Richards]]
!!Charlotte Richards
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[[caption-width-right:350:''"There's no hope for me, Amenadiel, I can't change. I'm going to Hell."'']]

!!! '''Played By:''' Creator/TriciaHelfer
!!! '''First appearance:''' "[[Recap/Lucifer2016S02E01EverythingsComingUpLucifer Everything's Coming Up Lucifer]]" (2x01, body), "[[Recap/Lucifer2016S02E18TheGoodTheBadAndTheCrispy The Good, the Bad, and the Crispy]]" (2x18, real self)

A defence attorney specializing in getting criminals off the hook. She was killed shortly before the Season 2 premiere and her corpse was resurrected when Goddess took over it. Charlotte herself was sent to Hell, until the end of the season when Goddess vacates her body and Charlotte returns to it. Her brief stint in Hell makes her realize that she needs to turn her life around, and she joins the DA's office as her way to atone.
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* AlternateSelf: Has one in [[Recap/Lucifer2016S03E26OnceUponATime an alternate universe]] created by God. Here she reamained the amoral attorney she was since she never died and went to Hell, and despite Lucifer being her client stole from him which Maze allowed as she knew Charlotte was dooming herself to Hell. She was last seen leaving Los Angeles with Dan, apparently in a relationship. Given how she never mentions them and was willing to leave with Dan, another difference between her and the main Charlotte is that she apparently never had a family.
* AmbiguouslyBi: She strikes up a relationship with Dan, but is earnestly confused as to whether she had hooked up with Maze during her missing time and seems a bit disappointed when Maze decides she's not interested in her.
* AmoralAttorney: She used to be one, defending known criminals and even "allegedly" making critical pieces of evidence against them disappear. She has a change of heart after returning from Hell.
* AndIMustScream: She remembers her time in Hell quite vividly; she was forced to watch over and over as her family was murdered by criminals she had represented, a different one each time, while she herself could only just sit there and smile.
* TheAtoner: Realizing she had been sent to Hell for what she did in life, now that she's got a second chance she's determined not to go back there.
* BackForTheFinale: She makes one last cameo in the series finale [[spoiler:having reunited with Dan who finally made it to Heaven]].
* BackFromTheDead: She had been murdered shortly before Lucifer's mother started using her body as a vessel. This is her second chance in life.
* BeneathTheMask: The real Charlotte returns in Season 3, after being resurrected at the end of Season 2, when Goddess left her body. She pretends to still be the tough AmoralAttorney, but she is clearly distraught and mentally falling apart over her own guilt, after literally going through Hell and waking up on Earth with no family and no memories of the past months.
* BirdsOfAFeather: A platonic example. Both she and Amenadiel [[BreakTheHaughty were [[{{Jerkass}} haughty jerks]] have been damned for their crimes]] (Amenadiel has fallen, and Charlotte ended up in Hell), who both undergo a HeelFaceTurn, and want to escape their fate by conforming to God's plan. As a result, they both grow very close to one another, even teaming up to put a pin in Cain's plan, [[spoiler: and she sacrifices herself for him.]]
* BreakTheHaughty: Charlotte's haughtiness got her killed in the first place. After she was resurrected, still clearly traumatized from experiencing Hell, she returns to life with no memories of what has happened to her in the last few months (as Goddess was inhabiting her body). During that gap, she apparently lost a majority of her work, any other relationships, and custody of her children to her husband with no visitation rights. Her time in Hell [[HeelRealization made her realize]] that acting as an arrogant AmoralAttorney filled her with deep regret, so to better herself and [[TheAtoner right her wrongs]], she gives up her job as a defense attorney and joins the District Attorney's office.
* CameBackWrong: Inverted. Unlike Malcolm, she became a better person after being resurrected.
* DefectorFromDecadence: She accepts a job at the DA's office, even though it'll mean less money from her work, because she doesn't want to defend criminals anymore.
* DiedInYourArmsTonight: [[spoiler:She dies in Amenadiel's arms, after TakingTheBullet for him.]]
* ForcedToWatch: Her torture in Hell was being forced to watch as the criminals she got free in life murdered her family in front of her while all she could do was smile. When she returns to Earth she keeps seeing the loop in her nightmares, with Dan added to the victims once they start dating.
* HeavenSeeker: She is traumatized by what is implied to be thousands of years of experience in Hell and resolves to become a better person when she is given a second chance in life.
* HeelRealization: After spending an undetermined amount of time in Hell, she realizes that she's been a horrible person in life and wants to change. [[spoiler:She has another late in Season 3 after she thinks she's found a way to avoid going to Hell again; without the threat of punishment, she reverted right back to her old self and even worse in some ways. A horrified Charlotte realizes she hasn't changed all that much after all.]]
* KilledOffForReal: [[spoiler:Dies after taking a bullet for Amenadiel]].
* MirrorCharacter: She serves as one to Malcolm, who was also brought back to life by a celestial being after seeing hell. Unlike him, she doesn't entirely fall back to her old ways and tries to better herself. [[spoiler:Both are shot to death, but Charlotte's genuine wish to be a good human and TakingTheBullet for an angel (Amenadiel) redeems herself and she is brought to heaven, while Malcolm, who became AxCrazy, shot an angel (Lucifer) and is sent back to hell.]]
* MyGreatestSecondChance: After getting a second chance on life, she realizes that she would go to hell, so she joins the District Attorney's office to better herself and become a better human.
* OneTrueLove: To Dan. [[spoiler:Other than a depression-fueled one night stand with Ella, Dan has not once looked at another woman since Charlotte died. Eventually, when he himself dies and makes peace with his guilt, he ascends to Heaven and finally reunites with her there]].
* RedemptionEqualsDeath: Sort of. [[spoiler:Just as she is about to take another step in fixing the mistakes of the past after helping with the arrest of a woman abuser and murderer she used to represent, she jumps in front of Amenadiel, who was about to be shot by Cain, and dies. Amenadiel in his grief gets back his wings and brings Charlotte's soul to Heaven, fulfilling her wish to never see Hell again.]]
* ScrewTheRulesIHaveConnections: [[spoiler:Late in Season 3, Lucifer reveals his angelic nature to her, causing her to realize she really was in Hell. She takes this as a get-out-of-Hell-free card to do anything she wants and avoid divine punishment for it because Lucifer and Amenadiel will get her out of it. Amenadiel has to remind her that neither of the two of them is in good standing with Heaven and God, and even if they were, it doesn't work that way.]]
* SecondLove: She and Dan were this to each other as both had been married to other people before they met. Prior to her death she had been having an affair and when she returns she finds that they are divorced, and she doesn't make much effort to reconnect with him.
* SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome: In Season 2 the Goddess slept with Charlotte's husband to keep him from bothering her, thought that "time out" involved chaining Charlotte's son to a goal post, spent plenty of time publicly having affairs with people like Dan, treated her job as a distraction, and in the season final seemingly threatened people. As a result Charlotte's find herself divorced from her husband and losing custody of her kids while losing most of her old clients.
* TakingTheBullet: [[spoiler:For Amenadiel. This one true selfless act costs her life, but Amenadiel flies her to Heaven for this.]]
* TogetherInDeath: [[spoiler:With Dan once he makes it to Heaven.]]
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Eve]]
!!Eve
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[[caption-width-right:316:''"I've always been a bit of a rule breaker."'']]
!!!'''Species:''' Human
!!! '''Played By:''' Creator/InbarLavi
!!! '''First appearance:''' "[[Recap/Lucifer2016S04E03OYeOfLittleFaithFather O Ye of Little Faith, Father]]" (4x03)

Eve of Adam and Eve fame. Eve is a human that made it into the Silver City. However, she has come to grow bored of paradise and came down to Earth. Has a shared history with Lucifer.

!!Detective Chloe Decker

!!Cain

!!Beatrice Espinoza

!!Mazikeen of the Lilim

** She eventually becomes roommates with Chloe, a rule abiding cop despite the two of them having completely different personalities. She also bonds with Dan since the two of them share the role of TokenEvilTeammate, despite Dan being more regretful unlike Maze.

* SexForSolace: He makes out with Ella in "Devil Is As Devil Does" amid his grief over Charlotte's death.

* TookALevelInKindness: He mellows out a lot in Season 2, and even becomes friends ([[VitriolicBestBuds somewhat]]) with Lucifer. He returns to this characterization in Season 5, [[spoiler:though he does have a FreakOut after learning Lucifer really ''is'' the Devil]].

* FatalFlaw: {{Gluttony}}. Malcolm self-describes as someone with a "hunger for life". It's not just the food, it's about [[{{Greed}} the money, too]]. It doesn't matter how many people he kills and lives he ruins: it's never enough for Malcolm to get satisfied. When he gets offered a second chance at life, he only sinks himself deeper into his amorality and violent tendencies, sealing his place after death is Hell, and it's well-deserved.

* BigEater: Dying and coming back made him appreciate food apparently, and he is always seen eating afterwards, which makes sense since he...

* FatalFlaw: Gluttony. Malcolm self-describes as someone with a "hunger for life". It's not just the food, it's about [[{{Greed}} the money, too]]. It doesn't matter how many people he kills and lives he ruins: it's never enough for Malcolm to get satisfied. When he gets offered a second chance at life, he only sinks himself deeper into his amorality and violent tendencies, sealing his place after death is Hell, and it's well-deserved.

* WouldHitAGirl: He outright tells Dan [[SheKnowsTooMuch he was gonna kill Chloe]] [[spoiler:for discovering his shady business at Palmetto]], and he killed [[spoiler:Rose Davis, a Satanist, as part of his murder spree]].
* WouldHurtAChild: [[spoiler:Threatens Chloe that if she won't give him the money, he will kill Trixie.]]

* BackFromTheDead: Technically he died, and was in Hell for a full 30 seconds before:Amenadiel pulled him out.

* FatalFlaw: Gluttony. Malcolm self-describes as someone with a "hunger for life". It's not just the food, it's about [[{{Greed}} the money, too]]. It doesn't matter how many people he kills and lives he ruins: it's never enough for Malcolm to get satisfied. When he gets offered a second chance at life, he only sinks himself deeper into the confirmation that his place after death is Hell, and it's well-deserved.

* AndIMustScream :Went to Hell after he died for being a DirtyCop, where he was starved and secluded from everything and everyone. It was around 30 seconds in real time, but in Hell, it felt like ''years''.

* UngratefulBastard: While Amenadiel ''did'' resurrect him to make him do his dirty deeds, Malcolm not only does not try to change his amoral views of life to make sure he doesn't return to Hell, he also goes as far as to [[spoiler:''stab'' Amenadiel, who is the reason he's still living in the first place]].

!!Chloe Decker

!!Daniel Espinoza

!!Linda Martin

!!Malcolm Graham

* BackFromTheDead: Technically he died, and was in Hell for a full 30 seconds before [[spoiler:Amenadiel pulled him out.]]

* DirtyCop: What Chloe suspected of him. [[spoiler:And she was absolutely right.]]

* DragonAscendant: [[spoiler: Becomes the final bad guy]] after Amenadiel decides to turn himself around.
%%* EvilIsPetty

* NoSell: He is completely unfazed by [[spoiler:Lucifer's GameFace. He justifies it by noting he has literally been to Hell and back]].

--> It's the wink ''with'' the porn 'stache that's sending the wrong message.
* SerialKiller: Becomes one after [[spoiler:getting the Pentecostal Coin from Lucifer.]]

!!Main Cast

!!Hell

[[folder:Maze]]
!!Mazikeen of the Lilim
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/mazikeen.png]]
[[caption-width-right:350:''"Self-worth comes from within, bitches."'']]
!!!'''Species:''' Demon
!!! '''Played By:''' Creator/LesleyAnnBrandt

Mazikeen, better known by her nickname Maze, is a demon who works as Lucifer's bodyguard and a bartender at Lux. She is mostly annoyed that Lucifer isn't doing anything interesting anymore. After coming to realize she needs to strike out on her own and not rely on him anymore, she gets work as a bounty hunter for hire and moves in with Chloe.

!!Celestials

[[folder:Goddess]]
!!Goddess
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/charlotte_richards.png]]
[[caption-width-right:350:''"The last thing I want to do is to hurt my children."'']]
!!!'''Species:''' Deity
!!! '''Played By:''' Creator/TriciaHelfer
!!! '''First appearance:''' "[[Recap/Lucifer2016S02E01EverythingsComingUpLucifer Everything's Coming Up Lucifer]]" (2x01)

The Goddess of all Creation, Mother of the angels and God's ex-wife. Lucifer considers her just as culpable for his banishment as God, since she didn't do anything to stop it. When she was banished in turn, he happily imprisoned her in Hell without asking for an explanation. While Lucifer was away from Hell, she escaped and ended taking up residence in the body of the recently deceased Charlotte Richards on Earth.

[[folder:Det. Chloe Decker]]
!!Chloe Decker
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/chloe_decker.png]]
[[caption-width-right:350:''"It’s better to move forward than stay stuck in the past."'']]

!!! '''Played By:''' Creator/LaurenGerman
!!! '''First appearance:''' "[[Recap/Lucifer2016S01E01Pilot Pilot]]" (1x01)

A former actress who is a bit of a pariah around her precinct due to her insistence on investigating cases everyone else thinks are open and shut. She ends up partnering with Lucifer despite her best efforts.

* ActionGirl: Chloe, like any detective, started as an officer on the field and clearly has the training for it. She's a good shot with a gun and can pack quite a punch.
* ActionMom: Trixie's [[spoiler: ''and'' Rory's]] mother who works as a police detective.
* AffectionateNickname:
** The amount of times Lucifer addresses Chloe by her name can be counted with one hand. To date, he's only shown calling her "Chloe" twice: in "Quintessential Deckerstar" ([[spoiler:before the two have their second BigDamnKiss]]) and "Who's da New King of Hell?" ([[spoiler:precedes Lucifer giving her a LastKiss before he returns to Hell]]). "Detective" is pretty much his way of being affectionate with her.
** Before his death, John Decker's nickname for his daughter was "Monkey". Chloe carries the tradition by nicknaming Trixie the same way.
* AlternateSelf: Has one in [[Recap/Lucifer2016S03E26OnceUponATime an alternate universe]] created by God, where her father never died and she became an actress.
* AmicableExes: She and Dan become this eventually, most notably after they finally decide to go ahead with their divorce.
* AnguishedDeclarationOfLove: Gives one to Lucifer in "Who's da New King of Hell", to make him stay with her. It doesn't work, but at least he reciprocates it.
* AllTheOtherReindeer: At the start of the series the rest of the force had a somewhat low opinion of her. Besides the ''Hot Tub High School'' nude scene, she was ostracized for insisting that Malcolm is a DirtyCop in spite of his being extremely well-regarded by everyone else. It was dropped in later seasons.
* AntiMagic: [[spoiler:Proximity to Chloe makes Lucifer mortal and able to be injured or killed. He describes it as being close to her making him feel vulnerable.]]
* ArbitrarySkepticism: Played with. On the one hand, it's understandable that Chloe doesn't believe that Lucifer is the devil (given that she shoots him and he bleeds). On the ''other'' hand, she seemingly writes off his powers revolving around desire and his SuperStrength. [[spoiler:It's implied that she's realized that Lucifer really ''has'' been telling the truth about who and what he is by "A Devil of My Word" before she sees his GameFace up close and personal at last.]]
* BackFromTheDead: [[spoiler:In "A Chance at a Happy Ending", she is stabbed to death by Michael, but resurrected when Lucifer returns her soul to Earth.]]
* BetterAsFriends: Chloe and Dan get along a lot better after they finalize their divorce.
* BettyAndVeronica: In Season 4, she is the Betty to Eve’s Veronica for Lucifer’s Archie. Eve seemingly accepts Lucifer for what he is, while Chloe is still having trouble coming to terms with finding out the truth. Tries to push Lucifer towards the goodness he has shown throughout the series while Eve wants him to be the punishing Devil he was.
* BriefAccentImitation: Imitates Lucifer's RP accent in "Vegas With Some Radish" ("[[LargeHam I'm Lucifer Morningstar, I can play the piano, and I'm a fancy British man!]]") and "Til Death Do Us Part" ("Hello, drug dealers!").
* BrokenPedestal: A downplayed example. Chloe's faith in Lucifer is shaken after the events of "A Good Day to Die", when he leaves Los Angeles for Las Vegas without telling her why. She is still willing to work with him afterwards, but is more prone to criticizing him and no longer believes in his words unconditionally.
* BroodingBoyGentleGirl: While Lucifer is usually the more bombastic of the two, she sometimes serves as the Gentle Girl to his Brooding Boy as well. Whenever Lucifer alternates between denial and self-flagellation, Chloe, being down-to-earth, will serve as his voice of reason and try to make him accept his flaws.
** A notable case of this is in "A Priest Walks Into a Bar", when she comforts Lucifer by playing a piano duet with him in the aftermath of Father Frank's death.
** In "Save Lucifer", she manages to convince Lucifer to forgive himself ''while Lucifer is in his full Devil self''. Also counts as an awesome moment, since accepting both sides of Lucifer is something Chloe has been struggling with throughout Season 4.
** Somewhat flipped on its head for a while in Season 5. [[spoiler: Learning that she's a child sent by God turns her into a Brooding Girl, distancing herself from Lucifer, lashing out at times, and being generally angsty about having no control over her life. Lucifer, having dealt with most of his personal issues, tries to the Gentle Boy and help her deal with her issues, though he is amusingly bad at it.]]
* CantHoldHerLiquor: In contrast to Lucifer's constant partying, Chloe needs to be egged into drinking. In "[[GirlsNightOutEpisode Lady Parts]]", she quickly spills into InVinoVeritas. In "Chloe Does Lucifer", Chloe "Lucinda" goes undercover as "Lucinda" at a high-profile mixer event. After a glass of Prosecco, her response to socializing with Benji is a laugh which Lucifer likens to "a demented witch on crack".
* TheChosenOne: [[spoiler: When Amenadiel first meets her mother Penelope, he realizes he's seen her before: thirty-five years prior he had been sent to bless Penelope and John Decker so the childless couple could conceive, the first and only time he was ever asked to do that. He's shaken to realize that God specifically intended for Chloe to exist and encounter Lucifer, and suggests why Lucifer is depowered in her presence.]]
* ClingyJealousGirl: Though it's usually the other way around, over time, Chloe does consider Lucifer as her partner. The key word here being "her". In a few episodes, she exhibits a mild possessiveness over Lucifer whenever he is not around or intimately close with another woman. Becomes blatant in "Orgy Pants to Work", when she admits to being envious over Lucifer's and Eve's relationship.
* CloudcuckoolandersMinder: Is this for Lucifer.
* CovertPervert:
** In "Til Death Do Us Part", Chloe seems to be enjoying the sight of [[GuyOnGuyIsHot Lucifer and Pierce kissing]].
** Despite ordering him to [[PleasePutSomeClothesOn put some clothes on]], it's telling that Chloe is trying hard to avert her gaze at a buck-naked Lucifer in "Orgy Pants to Work".
* CowboyCop:
** While not one to break fingers, Chloe usually follows her gut and refuses to let something go unless she has all of the answers, and will even "look the other way" should Lucifer do something amoral in certain situations. Not to mention her own acts of breaking and entering into suspect homes without a warrant and unlawful interrogations.
** This gets deconstructed in "My Little Monkey", when her decision to follow her father's killer ends up implicating her in his murder. And again in "Quid Pro Ho", when she eventually loses the court case against the ''real'' killer because of the same reason.
* DaddysGirl: Was close of her father, John Decker, and his death really affected her. In fact, it inspired her to change her career from actress to police officer, to honor his work and help people the way he did.
* DefrostingIceQueen: Is gradually warming up to Lucifer, even admitting she does like working with him, and iverall acts much friendlier and warmer towards everyone as the series progresses.
* {{Determinator}}: She will not stop trying to catch murderers, no matter what lies ahead of her. This has earned her the admiration of several characters, like Eve and Amenadiel, but also a WhatTheHellHero from Dan, when her drive to prove Malcolm guilty endangered her and might have cost to Malcolm's grieving family.
* DisappearedDad: Her father, John Decker, was murdered while she was a teenager. "My Little Monkey" deals with this aspect of her backstory as she tries to hunt down her father's real killer ([[FrameUp as the man imprisoned for the crime turns out to be completely innocent]]).
* DivineDate: She eventually hooks up with Lucifer [[spoiler:and gives birth to his daughter]].
* EmpoweredBadassNormal: [[spoiler:In the season 5 finale, Amenadiel's necklace gives her angelic superhuman strength, enabling her to defeat Michael. She still carries this into season 6, but voluntarily gives it up upon learning that she is slowly being corrupted by its influence.]]
* ExpositoryHairstyleChange: The season 5 reveal trailer shows that Chloe cuts her hair and dyes it brown. Probably a way to [[TraumaticHaircut cope with Lucifer leaving her]].
* FairCop: She's a pretty cop, and she used to be an actress.
* FantasticRacism: She falls into this in Season Four, once she sees Lucifer's true face, plotting with a priest to exorcise him and send him back to Hell. She even asks him if he EatsBabies at one point. Her attempt to grow out of this -- and accept Lucifer the way he is -- is a big plot point in the season.
* FireForgedFriends: She ends up becoming a lot closer to Lucifer after finding him annoying and creepy initially, and also ends up becoming friends with Maze, after their initial hostilities towards each other.
* FlatEarthAtheist: Played with.
** She refuses to believe that Lucifer is ''The'' Lucifer, though she has good reason to at times since she keeps seeing evidence against it (for instance, seeing Lucifer bleed from a bullet wound she gave him). Ironically, she insists that he's hiding something from her.
** Despite this, when Amenadiel tries to give her a more reasonable explanation she sees through it immediately.
** She finally learns the truth in the Season 3 finale, though she figures it out before actually seeing Lucifer's devil face. Seeing the face finally confirms it for her.
* {{Foil}}: She's one to Lucifer. On the superficial side, he's a tall, hammy, eccentric, somewhat [[JackBauerInterrogationTechnique prone to violence]] against witnesses, supernatural being with dark hair, while she's a short, no-nonsense, fairly stoic, ByTheBookCop and a normal human with blond hair. On a more subtle difference, she's far more judgy, a ConsummateLiar, is willing to kill if she's in danger, is very good at navigating normal social situations, and dearly loved her father, while Lucifer is more open about people's quirks, WillNotTellALie, is hesitant to kill even the most vile persons he encounters, has NoSocialSkills outside of sex and seduction, and loathes his father.
* ForgottenFirstMeeting: "City of Angels?" reveals that she actually met Amenadiel five years ago, but neither recall this meeting when they meet again in "Wingman".
* ForWantOfANail: In "Once Upon a Time", while John Decker being alive is the starting point, it's ultimately Chloe's choice to pursue a career in entertainment that changes everything in her friends' lives. Her advancing to more prestigious action films ended up inspiring Ella to become a carjacker; her entry to showbiz caused her to befriend Linda and invite her to the scene as well; and as a result of not joining the LAPD, she and Dan never married and had a family, thus he continues being a corrupt cop and Trixie was never born. And that's just the backstory; not meeting Lucifer means that the events of the series never happened, causing Maze and Amenadiel to stay gruff and alienated from the human world, Charlotte still being alive and amoral, etc.
* FriendlessBackground: Chloe's no-nonsense personality is heavily implied to be caused by this. She ''was'' homeschooled, after all. When Lucifer challenges her to name three friends she can call to have a drink with, she clearly has difficulties answering it. She ends up inviting Ella, Maze, and Linda, all of whom are new acquaintances to her, so to speak.
* FriendsRentControl: Discussed and subverted. In Season 1, she lives in a very nice house that she could not afford on a cop's salary. Lucifer immediately asks if she got the money by taking bribes. It's actually her mother's house; she moved in after separating from Dan. In Season 2, after she divorces from Dan, she decides to turn a new leaf and rent a flat.
* GenerationXerox:
** Her father was a police officer in Los Angeles and her mother was a known actress.
** [[spoiler:In "Partners 'Til the End", she eventually becomes an LAPD lieutenant, a position that her father would have been promoted to had he not died, as seen in "Once Upon a Time".]]
* GlamorousSingleMother:
** Despite working as a full-time detective, she has no difficulty raising Trixie, partly since she is still on good terms with Dan, making him able to share parenting. Theirs is probably the most adjusted parent-child relationship in the series.
** Also happens in Season 6, regarding her relationship with [[spoiler:Rory. Rory absolutely adores her mother and never blames her for not informing her the real reason why Lucifer went away. This despite the probable difficulties of raising a human-angel hybrid with only one precedent in history.]]
* GoodParents: She is a good mother to Trixie [[spoiler:and Rory]].
* HeroicBSOD: [[spoiler: After seeing Lucifer's devil face, Chloe went off with Trixie to Rome, trying to reconcile the depictions of Lucifer being the embodiment of evil with the man himself]].
** And again in season five when she learns [[spoiler: that she was a miracle to be put in Lucifer's path.]]
* HomeschooledKids: In "High School Poppycock", Chloe admits that since she grew up an actress, she was homeschooled, so never had the chance to experience things like prom. Throughout the episode, she gets positively giddy at joining a high school reunion and studiously reads a series of autobiographical books about it.
* IdiotBall: Grabs this in "Who Da New King of Hell?" when she decides to [[spoiler:leave Eve, who is unarmed and alone with a baby that a bunch of demons are trying to take to Hell, by herself so she can give an AnguishedDeclarationOfLove to Lucifer, ''knowing'' that she's the cause of his mortality (which means she knows the demons can potentially hurt him when she's around).]] It's especially egregious because Chloe is usually good when it comes to avoiding SkewedPriorities in a crisis, making it look like a poorly-implemented way to show that Chloe has [[spoiler:finally accepted Lucifer's nature, devil form and all]].
* InnocentlyInsensitive: When Chloe asks Lucifer [[spoiler: if he enjoyed torturing souls in Hell.]]
* InterspeciesRomance: With Lucifer, eventually.
* JerkassRealization: She's hell-bent on proving [[DirtyCop Malcolm's]] guilt, but after a [[WhatTheHellHero calling out]] by Dan (as her investigation could cost his innocent family his benefits and pension) and coming face-to-face with his heart-broken wife, she realizes that [[ToBeLawfulOrGood the right thing is not necessarily the good thing]], and she closes the investigation against Malcolm (while planning to investigate him on her own time).
* KickTheMoralityPet: Inverted, as she's Lucifer's MoralityPet, but is the one doing the kicking when she [[spoiler:not only asks Lucifer if he enjoyed torturing souls in Hell, but she asked him if he bit the heads off of children. Even ''worse'', she initially tries to send Lucifer back to Hell.]]
* LikeBrotherAndSister: She becomes this with Ella.
* LockedOutOfTheLoop:
** Not knowing that Lucifer is really the Devil has so far caused more problems than solved them, especially in the latter half of Season 2.
** Though by Season 2, she realizes “something” is odd about her partner, she’s not quite ready to accept idea that he's the Devil, but it works so chooses to not rock the boat.
** In the Season 3 finale, [[spoiler: she sees his Devil Face full on.]]
** [[spoiler:She was unaware that she was a miracle from God for Lucifer,]] until season 5.
* MamaBear:
** When [[spoiler: Malcolm kidnapped Trixie, she went against police protocol and removed his money from evidence in order to meet with him and exchange it for her daughter's life]].
-->'''Chloe''': Trixie is all that matters.
** Her endless arguments with Maze after the two begin living together in Season 2 is because she perceives Maze's, uh, rather unorthodox hobbies as contrary to what she wants Trixie to learn.
** When her [[spoiler: KidFromTheFuture, Rory is kidnapped, she goes full-on PregnantBadass to go into a BattleCouple with Lucifer to save ''their'' daughter]].
* ManipulativeBitch: She can be an heroic one when she needs to be, like pretending to go on a date with a doctor to discreetly learn about the asylum and possibly subtly coerce him into giving out a permission. [[spoiler: She becomes a true one in the beginning of Season 4, where she tries to get Lucifer back to Hell using his feelings for her, and later tries to change him.]]
* MoralityChain:
** For Pierce, potentially. [[spoiler: He ends their relationship when he falls in love with her and feels remorse for manipulating her. He doesn't want to kill her and tells her to step aside when he's about to kill Lucifer. When he lies dying, he asks if Chloe is OK. But on the other hand, he still tried to kill Amenadiel and frame Lucifer (Chloe's best friend and the man she ''actually'' loves) for it, accidentally killed Charlotte, and said he'd kill her if he has to when she protects Lucifer. And when Chloe shoots him, he orders his men to kill her and Lucifer.]]
** The alt-universe episode "Once Upon a Time" seems to imply that she is one to Dan. It's not so much their relationship (since the two end up divorcing in season 2 anyway), but simply not being there in his life. Because she never met Dan, they never started a family together, meaning he never repented from being a dirty cop.
* MoralityPet: She can literally bring out Lucifer's humanity, and is able to talk him down from seriously hurting anyone whenever he's pissed off. Most notably in episode three of the first season; right after Lucifer throws the man responsible for the murder through a glass window, he begins to advance on him angrily. Chloe gets in the way and tells him to calm down. He looks at her, and you can see the anger fading away in his eyes when his gaze is on her.
* MoralMyopia: Initially in season 4. She thinks the right thing to do is [[spoiler:trying to send someone - a friend she's had for years, no less! - to Hell]]. She gets better.
* NayTheist:
** In "Manly Whatnots", she tells Lucifer that she doesn't believe in God or the Devil, but does believe in right and wrong.
** Her lack of a religious upbringing is probably why in Season 4, she is briefly receptive to the church's teachings about the Devil and why she struggles throughout an entire season to reconcile these beliefs with what she was familiar with.
* NeverMyFault: Downplayed in season 4. She ''does'' admit to it, but after her initial role in trying to send Lucifer to Hell comes out, she tries to play it off as freaking out "for a moment" (rather than the few months it ''actually'' was), contrasting with her [[{{Hypocrite}} usual stance]] on accepting personal responsibility.
* NotSoAboveItAll:
** After she gets close with Lucifer, she sometimes exhibits jealousy over him, most notably in "Trip to Stabby Town" when she mistakes him hooking up with Ella.
** She has mocked Lucifer's RP accent a few times, both while drunk and sober.
** In "High School Poppycock", she becomes seriously invested in a series of autobiographical teen novels and starts identifying herself with the protagonist.
* NoSell: Chloe is immune to Lucifer's abilities and charms, sexual or otherwise. The central theme of the series is that Lucifer, usually a literal walking ChickMagnet who can get away with any woman he wants to sleep with, has to struggle getting Chloe to pay attention to him the normal way, because, without his charms, Chloe sees him like most people would if not for them: a sleazy, obnoxious creep.
* OddCouple: Chloe is a very by-the-book detective, a stack contrast to Lucifer, who will freely ignore the law and disrupt her work if it means solving the case. Chloe admits that, differences aside, she needs Lucifer as her partner, as he often makes their cases successful. Though as time goes on we see that she's actually willing to take risks and go off-the-books in order to catch the killers.
* OddFriendship: With Maze, a hard-drinking and rule-breaking woman who loves chaos and violence. Things get bizarre when the two end up sharing a house.
* OldShame: In-universe, the ''Hot Tub High School'' movie she did while she was a rising actress, which Lucifer claims rivals Phoebe Cates's in ''Film/FastTimesAtRidgemontHigh''. Chloe says she became a police officer so that no one will recognize her because of that.
* OnceDoneNeverForgotten: Try as she might, she can't completely shed her reputation as a paparazzi-punching teenage actress. The fact that her mother is a well-known BMovie actress doesn't help matters.
* OneTrueLove: She was literally made for Lucifer, as Amenadiel had been sent by his father to bless her mother to ensure her conception. This ends up being deconstructed in Season 5, [[spoiler:after Chloe finds out about the circumstances of her birth. Much like Lucifer in Season 2, she begins to wonder if that means she has no real choice in her actions and that she's just a puppet of fate, and that her feelings for Lucifer aren't even real. It's only after realizing that the reason why Lucifer is vulnerable around her is because he ''chooses'' to be that she finally accepts that while she may have been made for him, it's ultimately her choice over whether or not they get to be together. Thanks to Michael's manipulations, she starts to wonder if Lucifer even loves her, since he has never said it to her, but Lucifer proves it in the Season 5 finale by choosing to sacrifice his life to bring back Chloe from the dead, with his last words being an AnguishedDeclarationOfLove]].
* PleaseDontLeaveMe: [[spoiler: Invoked at the end of season four, where a tearful Chloe finally tells Lucifer that she loves him and begs him not to go back to hell.]]
* ProperlyParanoid: She is the only LAPD cop who suspects that Malcolm Graham is not a martyr, but a DirtyCop who has been fooling everyone. Not only is she right, [[EtTuBrute her estranged husband has been working all this time to make her crazy in front of everyone else]].
* RelationshipUpgrade: [[spoiler: What Chloe and Lucifer finally undergo in "Detective Amenadiel".]]
* ShootingSuperman: {{Justified|Trope}}. She shoots at [[spoiler: Michael]] several times after realising that bullets won't kill him, as he points out after the second bullet. She knows that, but it makes her feel better.
* SkewedPriorities: As an unfortunate side-effect of carrying the IdiotBall around during the fourth season finale, she decides to [[spoiler:declare her love for Lucifer during a demon attack (which leaves Eve alone with baby Charlie, whom the demons are ''trying to kidnap'') rather than wait until everyone is safe.]]
* SleepingWithTheBoss: [[spoiler:She ends up dating lieutenant Marcus Pierce in Season 3.]]
* SlutShaming: Has an unfortunate habit of doing this, especially to Lucifer.
* StarCrossedLovers: [[spoiler:With Lucifer]] at the end of season 4.
* TogetherInDeath: [[spoiler:In a way. In the GrandFinale, she dies after a long life and enters Heaven, but decides to descend to Hell and assist Lucifer helping damned souls to salvation.]]
* TomatoInTheMirror: [[spoiler:Does not take the revelation that she was a gift from God to Lucifer well at all and makes her question her own free will until Amenadiel assures her that all it means is Lucifer can’t reflect her desires back at her.]]
* {{Troll}}: In the first two episodes she repeatedly convinces Lucifer his powers are starting to work on her, then [[NoSell pulls the rug out from under him]].
* UnwittingMuggleFriend: She's this for Lucifer, having no idea he's really the Devil. [[spoiler: Until the Season 3 finale.]]
* UnwittingPawn:
** [[spoiler:God is clearly up to something with her, but Chloe has no idea she's special in any way.]]
** [[spoiler: Cain is also manipulating her into a relationship with him, hoping that her feelings can cure him of his curse.]]
** [[spoiler: While she agrees to work with Kinley willingly out of her own fears and confusion over Lucifer, she did not know he was aware of her mortalizing effect on Lucifer. She later realizes that's the real reason Kinley needed her for his plans to send Lucifer back to Hell.]]
* ViolentlyProtectiveGirlfriend: In season 5, she's ''furious'' with [[spoiler: Dan when he shoots Lucifer.]]
* VitriolicBestBuds: With Lucifer and Maze.
* WackyParentSeriousChild: The Serious Child to Penelope Decker's Wacky Parent.
* WhatTheHellHero: [[spoiler:Does this to ''God'' when she's introduced to him in person. Instead of being awed or afraid she gives him a piece of her mind over the way he treated Lucifer.]]

[[folder:Det. Dan Espinoza]]
!!Daniel Espinoza
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[[caption-width-right:350:''"Say you fall in love with a woman who has a cat. What are you gonna do? You accept the cat."'']]

!!! '''Played By:''' Creator/KevinAlejandro
!!! '''First appearance:''' "[[Recap/Lucifer2016S01E01Pilot Pilot]]" (1x01)

Chloe's co-worker, ex-husband, and father of her daughter.

* ActionDad: As involved in action as his ex-wife.
* AlternateSelf: Has one in [[Recap/Lucifer2016S03E26OnceUponATime an alternate universe]] created by God, where he never met Chloe and had Trixie meaning he had no one stop him from embracing his darker impulses. He ends up leaving Los Angeles with Charlotte after stealing Lucifer's money.
* AmicableExes: He and Chloe become this eventually, most notably after they finally decide to go ahead with their divorce, though he still obviously has feelings for her.
* TheAtoner: [[spoiler: Surrenders himself in "Take Me Back to Hell" to the LAPD to clear Lucifer's name. Actually, pretty much all of his actions in the episode.]] When Lucifer uses his power to determine what his greatest desire is, Dan reveals he wants to redeem himself.
* BetterAsFriends: Chloe and Dan get along a lot better after they finalize their divorce. In fact, Dan was the one who suggested they finalize it once and for all.
* ButtMonkey: After spending Season 1 as a mildly sinister JerkAss, he begins transforming into this in Season 2 since [[spoiler: the department can't fire or demote him without suffering its share of humiliation for his actions, so instead he's placed firmly at the bottom of the totem pole, reduced to doing every other detective's grunt work.]] By Season 3, he basically exists as a [[StraightMan target]] for the JerkAss-[[BuffySpeak ier]] characters like Lucifer and Pierce to fling witty insults at. [[RunningGag And people keep stealing his pudding!]]
** By season 5B his [[spoiler: death]] is orchestrated by Michael. What is worse, Amenadiel reveals [[spoiler: he is in Hell]].
* ByTheBookCop: If a little eager to close cases, Dan does worry more about doing his job by the laws than Chloe or Lucifer do.
* DiedInYourArmsTonight: [[spoiler:After getting shot multiple times he bleeds out in Chloe's arms. He apparently held on long enough to make it to the hospital before passing but the last the audience sees of him his Chloe holding him.]]
* DirtyCop:
** Revealed to be one in "Et Tu, Doctor?". [[spoiler:He was the one who shot Malcolm.]] Subverted when it's revealed that he only did that [[spoiler: to protect Chloe from Malcolm]], who was the real DirtyCop.
** However there are times where Dan behaves in a corrupt way such as having Perry Smith killed or threatening to shoot a man for information. During the latter he admits he had no right to be pissed that Pierce called him corrupt.
** In the alternate universe of "Once Upon a Time", Dan is a dirty cop to the core, since he never met Chloe, never became a father, and therefore never had any reason to become a better person. He is last seen driving away with Charlotte, an equally dirty attorney, with cash and gold they stole from Lucifer.
* EmbarrassingNickname: Detective Douche, which is how Lucifer addresses him in season 1 and early season 2. After the events of "Trip to Stabby Town", however, Lucifer, possibly out of respect at him managing to fend off the influence of Azrael's Blade, starts calling Dan by his full name, Daniel. Lucifer occasionally reverts to "Detective Douche" when Dan is being especially douche-y towards him. In ''Once Upon a Time'' he is instead called "Detective Dildo" by Lucifer in an alternate universe. [[spoiler: It's an indication of how deep Lucifer's grief, when he refers to him as Dan while pouring his heart out to Dr. Linda in the wake of Dan's murder.]]
* EveryoneHasStandards: Despite hating Lucifer at the time he still tries to protect him from Malcolm Graham.
* FairCop: Dan is a very attractive cop, to say the least.
* FireForgedFriends: Dan and Lucifer eventually become friends (albeit of the [[VitriolicBestBuds vitriolic variety]]) during Season 2, after spending the first season despising each other.
* HeavenSeeker: [[spoiler:His whole storyline in season 6 is wanting to find the source of his guilt and make peace with it so he can enter Heaven.]]
* HeroicWillpower: Azrael's blade is an ArtifactOfDoom that can induce mortals to act on trivial slights with murderous rage, but Dan was able to resist its influence after admitting that the things he was upset about were largely his own fault.
* HiddenDepths:
** In "Et Tu, Doctor?", Chloe explains that Dan more focused on his job than his family. After talking through, the two end up having a very egalitarian romantic relationship in the middle of Season 1. If it wasn't for Malcolm, they might end up together.
** Dan was able to [[HeroicWillpower resist]] the influence of [[spoiler:Azrael's blade and not stab Lucifer.]] Very impressive for a mortal.
** Dan is revealed to be attending improv sessions and is pretty good at it.
** Dan of all people listens to rap music and tag-teams some bars with Ella when one of their cases points towards a rapper they both listen to.
* {{Hunk}}: Has a ''very'' impressive build. Noticeable whenever he is paired with lanky Lucifer, particularly in "My Little Monkey", where [[ShirtlessScene the two visit a bathhouse]].
* IDidWhatIHadToDo: His reason for [[spoiler:{{gaslighting}} Chloe was to protect her from Malcolm. And presumably any other dirty cops Malcolm is associated with.]]
** Gives the same reasoning to Chloe during Season 5 [[spoiler:for shooting Lucifer, trying to kill him on Michael's instructions.]]
* InSeriesNickname: Most people call him "Dan". Lucifer is the only one who regularly uses his full given name, Daniel (that is, when he's not calling him "[[EmbarrassingNickname Detective Douche]]").
* InTheBack: [[spoiler: While running away from mercenaries sent by Michael, he gets shot in the back by one of them and later dies in Chloe's arms.]]
* JacobMarleyApparel: [[spoiler:After Rory brings his spirit back to Earth he gets stuck as a ghost wearing the clothes he died in.]]
* {{Jerkass}}:
** Is [[CharacterizationMarchesOn initially]] one to Chloe at every turn, with a side of DeadpanSnarker. He calls her out when he thinks she and Lucifer are sleeping together. He gets better as time goes on.
** He is also one to Lucifer in much of season 1, hence his nickname "Detective Douche". Relapses back again for much of season 4, as his grief over Charlotte's death causes him to blame Lucifer over everything, until Linda convinces him to confront his issues in "Save Lucifer".
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Does help Chloe pursue a case off-the-books when he thinks she's right, and in season 3, interrupts his own vacation to help Maze when she's on a job in Canada.
* KilledOffForReal: [[spoiler:In Season 5B he is shot several times by his kidnapper in the back and bleeds to death in Chloe's arms, on Michael's orders]].
* LikeBrotherAndSister: In "Is This Really How It's Going To End?" he addresses Ella as "[[BilingualBonus Mi hermanita]]" while trying to set her up with an old friend of his.
* LockedOutOfTheLoop: Has no idea that Lucifer is really the Devil. [[spoiler:At least until Season 5, courtesy of Michael causing Dan to accidentally see Luci's Devil face, at which point Dan has a HeroicBSOD.]]
* TheMourningAfter: Dan spends much of season 4 mourning after Charlotte and is either a jerk (Lucifer) or distant (everyone else) to others. Upon Ella's urging, however, he seeks therapy with Linda in "Save Lucifer" and mostly recovers from this state by the season finale.
* MrFanservice: Downplayed but he has a few shirtless scenes in the series.
* NoGoodDeedGoesUnpunished: In Season 5B he volunteers to help Chloe with a particularly difficult case, this ends up with him [[spoiler: being kidnapped, tortured and shot, later dying on Chloe's arms]].
* OddFriendship:
** Develops a pretty strong friendship with Amenadiel, despite him being a angel and Dan a dirty cop. However Amenadiel likely appreciates that he's trying to redeem himself with Amenadiel doing the same after his actions in Season 1.
** Despite not really getting along and Maze being far closer with Linda, Dan and Maze do bond since both are technically the TokenEvilTeammate of the main cast. As a result Dan feels more comfortable coming to her over his more darker actions since Maze is understanding and accepting.
** Surprisingly, despite at first hating him and not liking his close relationship with Chloe, Dan comes to like Lucifer with their teasing taking on a more friendly tone and they bond over similar interests. [[spoiler:This is why he was so angry to learn that Lucifer always knew that Pierce was the Sinnerman after Charlotte's death, with Season 4 showing their friendship broken though it improves in Season 5]].
* {{Otaku}}: He enjoys the ''Body Bag'' ninja movies. He bonds with Lucifer over this.
* PapaWolf: His relationship with Chloe is complicated but he still cares about her and he loves their daughter Trixie. He tries to close cases to protect Chloe. He threatens Lucifer not to do anything that would put Chloe or Trixie in danger or he will make Lucifer pay.
* PayEvilUntoEvil: After John Decker's real murderer gets an innocent verdict, Dan and Maze arrange for the Russian mob to find out he'd killed one of their men to cover his tracks and arrange for them to abduct and, presumably, take their revenge. [[spoiler:See also Season 5 when he's manipulated by Michael into trying to kill Lucifer - going by Lucifer's eons old reputation as opposed to the evidence he's personally seen over the course of the time he's known him, due to Michael's abuse of his natural fear for his soul and the safety of his friends, ex, and daughter.]]
* PetTheDog: As mentioned above, goes to Chloe to help her and genuinely seems to still care about her.
* RedemptionDemotion: At the end of season 1, he confesses to his complicity in Malcolm's plans and is arrested. The next season reveals that the LAPD releases Dan but demotes him from detective to ordinary officer.
* RoaringRampageOfRevenge: As he states in "A Devil of My Word", he will not rest until he catches the person who murdered the woman he loves.
* SexForSolace: He makes out with Ella in "Devil Is As Devil Does" amid his grief over Charlotte's death.
* ShipperOnDeck: After he divorces Chloe, he supports her hooking up with Lucifer. He even consoles him when she starts dating Pierce, though Dan states that's mainly because he doesn't like Pierce.
* TogetherInDeath: [[spoiler:After resolving the last of his guilt he ''finally'' makes it to Heaven in the penultimate episode. The series finale shows him reunited at long last with Charlotte Richards.]]
* TokenEvilTeammate: Downplayed since that role mainly goes to Maze, but Dan is a DirtyCop in Season 1 and struggles with atoning for his former actions for the rest of the series. It doesn't help that he often makes questionable choices that haunt him.
* TookALevelInJerkass: He relapses back to his Season 1 douche-y self after [[spoiler:Charlotte's death]], blaming Lucifer for everything and even [[spoiler:(albeit accidentally) almost getting him killed in a reckless attempt to make Lucifer face justice for assaulting a previous suspect]]. Gets {{Lampshade|Hanging}}d by Lucifer in 'Devil Is As Devil Does'.
-->'''Lucifer:''' ''(introducing him to Eve)'' And that's Dan. He's a douche again.
* TookALevelInKindness: He mellows out a lot in Season 2, and even becomes friends ([[VitriolicBestBuds somewhat]]) with Lucifer. He returns to this characterization in Season 5, [[spoiler:though he does have a FreakOut after learning Lucifer really ''is'' the Devil]].
* TrademarkFavoriteFood: Pudding. Even seeing a man boiled alive in a big vat of it can't put him off the stuff for very long.
* UnwittingMuggleFriend: He's this for Lucifer, having no idea he's really the Devil. [[spoiler:At least until Season 5, courtesy of Michael]].
* VitriolicBestBuds: While hating each other back in Season 1 and nearly always arguing, Dan and Lucifer are genuinely friends.
* WrongGenreSavvy: [[spoiler:He pretends to accept Rory's deal to take him from Hell to Earth in exchange for helping her kill Lucifer, but immediately tries to warn the latter the moment he arrives at Lux. Only to learn too late that, as a ghost, he can't interact with anyone but celestials and demons, and Lucifer isn't there anyway.]]

[[folder:Ella Lopez]]
!!Ella Lopez
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[[caption-width-right:350:''"I mean, you know Ella, there's just something about her. She's so positive, she makes you feel like..."'']]

!!! '''Played By:''' Creator/AimeeGarcia
!!! '''First appearance:''' "[[Recap/Lucifer2016S02E01EverythingsComingUpLucifer Everything's Coming Up Lucifer]]" (2x01)

A forensic specialist who starts working for the LAPD at the beginning of the second season. She used to live in Detroit and steal cars, but gave up criminality before moving to Los Angeles. She is a faithful Catholic, though she loses her faith for a while in later seasons.

* AbsentMindedProfessor: She's highly intelligent and very good at her job, but has a habit of losing focus or going on unrelated tangents in the middle of conversations. She also mentions that she almost forgot putting on pants when she was called to the precinct in the dead of night.
* AllGirlsWantBadBoys: Admits her tastes run this direction in Season 5, most likely as a result of her rough childhood. She's not exactly proud of it (hence the lack of a romantic life until that season) and tries to move out of it by dating a nice journalist she meets, named Pete. [[spoiler:Then it turns out Pete is a sociopathic SerialKiller]].
* AllLovingHero: Ella is a sweet girl who gives free hugs, loves her friends and colleagues and is liked back by everyone. Lt. Pierce finds her extremely annoying though, [[spoiler:which is a hint that he is not a good guy at all]].
* AlternateSelf: Has one in [[Recap/Lucifer2016S03E26OnceUponATime an alternate universe]] created by God. In this world she was inspired by Chloe's character in a film to become a criminal and a mechanic, [[Main/MisaimedFandom while ignoring how Chloe's character eventually joined the police]]. This version is more rough around the edges, but for the most part seems to be the same person she is in the main universe [[InSpiteOfANail and still has a friendship with Lucifer]].
* AmbiguouslyBi: When Linda mentions being a phone sex operator in the past, Ella comments "I would totally call that". In another episode, to celebrate Chloe's birthday she hires her a male stripper, then joins in on the dance by grinding on Chloe. When Eve gives her a ShutUpKiss to calm her down, she clearly enjoyed it.
* BigBrotherWorship: She looks up to her oldest brother, Jay, and refuses to believe that he has turned to criminality, despite all evidences pointing to the contrary.
* BreakTheCutie:
** [[spoiler:Charlotte's death and the reveal that ''Pierce'', the man she looked up to and defended, was the one who killed her, causes her to break her faith in God for supposedly allowing this to happen.]]
** [[spoiler:In "Spoiler Alert", Pete tells her that she has a darkness inside herself, which he can tell when they first met.]]
* BrokenPedestal:
** At Marcus Pierce in "A Devil of My Word" upon his outing as the Sinnerman, though she doesn't get to tell him off since he is killed by Lucifer shortly afterwards. She does, however, lose her faith in God, as she blames him for allowing Charlotte to be shot by Pierce.
** A smaller case in "The One With the Baby Carrot", when her favorite comedian turns out to be plagiarizing his jokes.
---> '''Ella:''' I defended you! J'accuse, Bobby Lowe! J'accuse!
* BunnyEarsLawyer: She's quirky and excitable, but she's definitely good at her job.
* CantHoldHerLiquor: She's the lightest weight of all the girls when it comes to partying. Moreover, she ''definitely'' can't hold her drugs. When Eve gives her a tab of Lucifer's "house special" (read: molly), she starts tripping out her eyeballs to the point where she's completely useless during a hostage crisis. When Lucifer tries to "sober" her up with some cocaine, while it ''does'' make her slightly more productive, on top of the previous trip, she's bouncing around like a jackrabbit - basically, rather than countering the effects of the X, it just made her ''worse''.
* CrisisOfFaith: She undergoes one in the wake of Charlotte's death. Over the course of Season 4, she starts doubting God and the Bible, stops attending church and wearing her cross necklace, and spirals into drug use and alcoholism (before finally proclaiming that God either isn't real, or doesn't care about humanity). She recovers by the end of the season, however, and concludes that it isn't God's job to stop bad things from happening, but rather to give humanity the strength to get through said bad things.
* CuddleBug: She loves a good hug, and will hug every person she meets.
* DarkAndTroubledPast: She used to boost cars with her brother's gang before she switched sides and joined the LAPD. Various casual lines imply further, quite extensive contacts into the criminal underworld even after her HeelFaceTurn. Then again, she grew up in [[WretchedHive Detroit]].
* DarkIsNotEvil: Her opinion on the devil, in spite of her Christian faith, which Lucifer appreciates.
* EasilyForgiven: In Season 5, she was angry at Lucifer for leaving without saying goodbye, nor answering her texts, [[spoiler:due to returning to Hell]]. When he[[note]][[spoiler:actually Michael]][[/note]] returns, she calls him out until Chloe vouches for him explaining he had "family business" to deal with. Ella accepts his apology and is back to being chummy with him, but threatens not to do that to her again.
* EurekaMoment: She gets one during "Everything's Coming Up Lucifer" to figure out where the crime weapon(s) are coming from. In "Welcome Back, Charlotte Richards", she has another when she realises the pudding company's secret ingredients mix to make a very dangerous poison.
* {{Fangirl}}: She's this to Marcus Pierce. So much so that when he suddenly yelled at her to be quiet, she became defensive and acting out, until Marcus apologized. [[spoiler: But she lost all respect and admiration for him when she finds out he shot Charlotte Richards.]]
* FlatEarthAtheist: Becomes this in season 4 as she loses her faith and openly declares how there's "no God, heaven or Hell", completely unaware that not only she makes these complaints around the actual Devil and his angel brother, her childhood best friend was the actual Angel of Death.
* FunTShirt:
** She usually wears brightly-colored t-shirts with fun graphics or slogans on them. In "My Brother's Keeper", she and Trixie bond over the fact they're wearing the same t-shirt.
** In the imaginary reenactment of Linda's book in "Save the Devil, Save the World" she's depicted wearing a generic black tee with the words "Happy T-Shirt" in bold white letters, a placeholder for her genuine t-shirts.
* GenkiGirl: Very upbeat and energetic, for someone whose job is to analyze crime scenes. When she first met Lucifer, she gave him a hug.
* GodivaHair: When she and Lucifer go undercover in a nudist club in Season 4, her long hair and some SceneryCensor are the only things that keep the episode from getting slapped with a higher rating.
* TheHeart: When she learns the truth about Lucifer and asks why she was kept out of the inner circle, Dan says she is the inner circle.
* HeroWorship: She really idolizes Marcus Pierce, in spite of [[JerkWithAHeartOfGold his personality]]. The revelation that [[BrokenPedestal her hero is actually LA's most feared crime boss]] causes her to lose her faith in God.
* HiddenDepths: Besides the many casual references to her former criminal past, "Deceptive Little Parasite" reveals that she's seeing a therapist. "Vegas With Some Radish" implies she has some kind of mental illness (possibly schizophrenia) that she's dealt with through gambling and other vices in the past [[spoiler: though more likely this had to do with having an invisible-to-others angel/ghost for a friend.]]
* IChooseToStay: In "Boo Normal", she nearly resigns from the LAPD to move back to Detroit, but Ray-Ray and Lucifer convince her not to.
* IconicSequelCharacter: Debuts in the second season and quickly became a core member of the cast.
* LikeBrotherAndSister:
** As she tells Chloe: "You're the sister I never had".
** She eventually also develops this dynamic with Lucifer. In "My Brother's Keeper", upon finding out that Jay Lopez, Ella's ''real'' brother, has been hiding his criminal record perfectly, Lucifer threatens him from lapsing into criminality again, as it will shatter Ella's view of her "perfect" brother, and tells him that [[IfYouEverDoAnythingToHurtHer he will be watching]]. In "Boo Normal", Ella's ghost friend Ray-Ray -- who is really Lucifer's sister, Azrael -- convinces Lucifer to treat Ella like he does with her.
* LockedOutOfTheLoop: Has no idea that Lucifer is really the Devil. She assumes he's actually a ''very'' dedicated method actor doing research for a role playing a crime-fighting devil.
** [[spoiler:By season 6 she's finally worked out the truth and eventually goes on a drunken rant where she calls her friends out for not trusting her enough to tell her themselves.]]
* MassiveNumberedSiblings: Ella, plus her four brothers.
* MsExposition: Helps provide background on a case thanks to any evidence that's brought to her.
* NearDeathExperience: She almost died in a car crash as a kid. [[spoiler:This was when she met Azrael. Azrael expected her to die, but she survived, and then Azrael just kept coming around because Ella was more fun than the usual dead souls]].
* NerdGlasses: Shows up at the precinct wearing a huge pair when Lucifer and Chloe call on her in the middle of the night, suggesting she's normally wearing contacts.
* NiceGirl: She's nicest of the cast. Despite being religious she’s best friends with Lucifer. Granted for most of the series she didn’t know he was actually the devil, she still takes his words with more kindness than most Christians would. And when she figures out the truth she’s more hurt that it was kept from her than angry. In short, she’s welcoming to anyone and willing to give them a hug upon meeting them.
* NoSenseOfPersonalSpace: A minor example, but her first meetings with Lucifer, Maze, and Amenadiel have her giving them big hugs.
* NoodleIncident:
** Various lines suggest that Ella was involved to an extent in the criminal world before turning a new leaf and joining law enforcement.
** In "Quid Pro Ho", she doesn't act surprised upon seeing a decapitated head in a box, casually stating "I wish that was my first".
* OOCIsSeriousBusiness: After Pierce scolds her in "The Sin Bin", she turns withdrawn and quiet. Charlotte quickly takes note of this and, upon learning the reason, [[TheReasonYouSuckSpeech chews out Pierce]] hard enough for him to apologize to Ella.
* PalsWithJesus: [[spoiler:Her childhood best friend was Azrael, the Angel of Death.]] Not to mention her friendship with Lucifer.
* ThePollyanna: Ella states in "Deceptive Little Parasite" that, in spite of her bubbly personality, she has been seeing a therapist for a while.
* {{Polyglot}}: Speaks Spanish and French.
* ReformedCriminal: Casually states that she used to steal cars in one episode, then later reveals inside knowledge of illegal street racing, explaining that "stealing cars is no fun if you don't drive them really fast." In "Vegas With Some Radish" Lucifer finds out she counts cards and has previously been banned from a casino; her immediate identification of an iconic slot machine's payout jingle implies a history with casinos and gambling in general.
* SexForSolace: In "Devil Is As Devil Does", she makes out with Dan. As later episodes reveal, this was to cope with their respective issues (Ella with her crisis of faith, Dan with his loss over Charlotte).
* SheCleansUpNicely: In Vegas, even Lucifer is wowed by how Ella wears a stunningly hot dress showing off her legs.
* ShipperOnDeck: For Lucifer/Chloe in Season 2 but jumps to the Chloe/Marcus ship in Season 3. Jumps back Lucifer/Chloe after she tells her why she accepted and rejected Marcus's proposal.
* TokenReligiousTeammate: She's the only character who's openly and explicitly religious, adding a layer of irony to her not being aware of how many of her friends are actually divine beings. [[spoiler:Part of the reason she's so angry at being kept in the dark is because she already believed in the divine and would have accepted the truth if told.]]
* UnwittingMuggleFriend: She's this for Lucifer, having no idea he's really the Devil. She's also this for Azrael, again, having no idea she's really the Angel of Death.

[[folder:Lt. Marcus Pierce ('''Spoilers Unmarked!''')]]
!!Cain
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[[caption-width-right:350:''"You made me realize that life is worth living, and I will do anything to stay alive."'']]

!!! '''Played By:''' Creator/TomWelling
!!! '''First appearance:''' "[[Recap/Lucifer2016S03E1TheyreBackArentThey They're Back, Aren't They?]]" (3x01)

The new lieutenant as of Season 3, a stone-hard and seasoned veteran of the force who has also seen military service. However, in the mid-season finale, a new revelation about him causes Lucifer to revaluate their positions respective to the other -- he's actually Cain, cursed by God to walk the earth forever as punishment for killing his brother. He came to L.A. to make contact with Lucifer after hearing about how the Devil becomes vulnerable in the presence of a certain detective, hoping to find a way to finally end his curse.

* ZeroPercentApprovalRating: He's an enormous asshole, and as a result very few people like him. When Ella tries to cheer him up with a compliments box from everyone in the precinct, the only nice things people said about him were his [[{{Hunk}} impressively large, shapely arms]].
* AdaptationalAttractiveness: In ''ComicBook/TheSandman1989'' (which properly introduced Lucifer to the [=DC=] universe), Cain was thin, reedy, and had a mass of WildHair. This version of him's a {{Hunk}}. Furthermore, his mark is on his arm this time, rather than his forehead.
* AdaptationPersonalityChange: Cain was a rather manic storyteller in ''The Sandman'', prone to constantly (and brutally) killing his brother, Abel, in horrible ways because it was in his nature to do so.[[note]] However, it was implied they may have been the {{Anthropomorphic Personification}}s of the ''idea'' of Cain and Abel, and not the real beings.[[/note]] This version of him is a stern, cold DeathSeeker. "Infernal Guinea Pig" adopts this idea by having Maze and Lucifer reveal that Abel's torture in Hell is Cain murdering him over and over in various scenarios.
* AdaptationalSuperpowerChange: In the comics, Cain's curse made it so that anyone who harmed him would be given LaserGuidedKarma thrice-fold, making it so that Cain was not so much invulnerable as everyone was too afraid to hurt him for fear of cosmic retribution. Here, the mark gives him CompleteImmortality.
* AdaptationalVillainy: In the comics, Cain was a PunchClockVillain who only ever harmed Abel (who, being a dream, would come back to life shortly thereafter) because it was his ''job'' as the archetypical "First Victimizer." Otherwise he was a [[AffablyEvil nice guy]] (albiet with a dark sense of humor) who kept his loyalties to his master Dream and guarded the House of Mysteries. Here he is a genuinely bad guy who's better qualities were either fleeting or [[FauxAffablyEvil faked]] to put on the appearance of a normal guy. He is eventually revealed to be the real Sinnerman -- a SerialKiller moving across America as a long-term gambit to find a way to die -- and when he loses his immortality, he is very quick to regain it no matter who he has to hurt to do it.
* AlternateUniverseReedRichardsIsAwesome: His alternate self is none other than [[Series/{{Smallville}} Superman]], who is as different from him as they come.
* AmbiguouslyEvil: For the first part of Season 3. He's a right {{jerkass}} most of the time, but does show some softer moments. Then TheReveal in "The Sin Bin" that he's really Cain, the first murderer, throws all presumptions about him out the window. The Sinnerman ''was'' his right-hand man, but he went rogue and Cain shot him for it. Additionally, he admits he did abduct Lucifer and leave him in the desert, but claims he has no idea how his wings returned and what happened to his devil face. WordOfGod implies he's really just playing GambitRoulette, trying to find someone who can kill him and not being sure if either Lucifer or Chloe fit the bill.
* AndIMustScream: Cain is sent to Hell, as Lucifer points out that him killing Charlotte Richards instead of Amenadiel is an action he deeply regrets inside.
* ArcVillain: For Season 3. Though he's a VillainyFreeVillain, he's the primary source of Lucifer's antagonism in the season by coming between him and Chloe. He's also TheManBehindTheMan to The Sinnerman, the season's DiscOneFinalBoss; though he split from Pierce before the season, Pierce is the one that raised and trained him. He advances to actual villainy in the season's later episodes, when he manipulates Chloe into a relationship with him, begins plotting with Maze to frame Lucifer for his murder and force him to return to Hell, and then later turns his attention to killing Amenadiel to regain his mark.
* BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor: What makes it possible for him to die? Finally having something to live for.
** Similarly, Cain's season long goal was to die to avoid the earthly loop. When he gets killed by Lucifer, his ultimate fate is a Hell loop of him repeatedly killing Charlotte due to his immense guilt.
* BecomingTheMask: He pretends to be in love with Chloe because he believes that her love will make his mark disappear, at which point he'll be able to die. However, he ends up falling for her and finds that he can't bring himself to use her. It's this selfless act and not Chloe's love that finally gets rid of his mark.
* BelievingTheirOwnLies: He claims he won't go to hell because he [[IDidWhatIHadToDo doesn't feel guilty about anything he's ever done]]. It's later revealed that it was his own guilt which was keeping the mark in place all along.
* BettyAndVeronica: {{Downplayed|Trope}}. Though he is kind of a {{Jerkass}}, he seems to be the Betty to Lucifer's Veronica towards Chloe's Archie, being a no-nonsense, responsible cop, who's ready to sacrifice himself for Chloe very early on. However ...
** BettyAndVeronicaSwitch: TheReveal that he is the Sinnerman and [[BiblicalBadGuy Cain, the first killer]] firmly plants him as Veronica, being a manipulative asshole, the leader of a very dangerous crime ring, and only wanting to get with Chloe for his own self-interest.
* BrokenPedestal: Becomes this to Ella, after she learns that he murdered Charlotte.
* {{Cain}}: Marcus Pierce is actually Cain, the biblical first murderer.
* CainAndAbel: Played with. While he and Abel are the {{Trope Namer}}s, they were ''both'' the Cain. Pierce claims that Abel wanted to kill him as much as he wanted to kill Abel, Pierce was just the one of them that did it.
* CanonCharacterAllAlong: "Marcus Pierce" is an alias -- his real name is Cain.
* ColdHam: He's stoic and poker-faced to an impressive fault, even with ridiculous things coming out of his mouth at times.
* TheComicallySerious: Where most of his humour comes from.
* DeadpanSnarker: When it's not the above, his humour comes from this. For instance, when Lucifer is telling him the story of Cain and Abel:
-->'''Pierce:''' I know this story. The ending sucks.
* DeathSeeker: He's really had his fill of the whole "WalkingTheEarth" deal he's been cursed with and has been trying to kill himself since the Bronze Age (roughly 5000 years ago on the outside). None of it has stuck, up to and including throwing himself into ''an active volcano.'' Ironically after finally losing his mark, he becomes afraid to die and tries to do anything he can to stay alive, including making a plan to get his mark back. He tells himself and others that he's staying alive for Chloe (because he loves her), but it's strongly implied that he's afraid of dying because he knows where he'll end up...
* DieLaughing: After Lucifer gives Cain a well-deserved TheReasonYouSuckSpeech, Cain just laughs in his face before finally dying. It's creepy as heck.
* DirtyCop: He maintains his network of contacts as the Sinnerman while working for the LAPD, though he makes little use of them in an attempt to go clean. He fully becomes this in this final episode when he sabotages the investigation against him using those contacts.
* DyingCurse: His words are short, but he gets a last laugh when he points out that Lucifer, who killed him and is about to get back his devil face after giving Cain a TheReasonYouSuckSpeech, [[ArmorPiercingResponse is just as bad as him]].
* FairCop: He's rather handsome.
* {{Foil}}:
** Tom Ellis says he's one to Lucifer; a disgraced son, cast out and cursed by God and humanity.
** Also with regards to their relationships to Chloe; Lucifer falls in love with her due to a genuine affection for her and personal growth on his part; Pierce at first only pursues Chloe for selfish reasons, because he thinks being with her would make his mark go away, but backs off when he developed actual feelings for her. And in regards to Chloe's miracle status: when Lucifer finds out, he backs off because he fears God was forcing her to have feelings for him, and doesn't want to take away her free will. Meanwhile Pierce plans to use her miracle status for his own gain, and manipulates her into a relationship with him.
* FreudianExcuse: He's a cold and aloof individual with very little tact for other people's feelings and fakes sincerity when he sees a long term benefit in it because [[WhoWantsToLiveForever he has lived for so long, survived so much and has seen so many people he grew to care about die without him that he has since grown numb to the human experience]].
* HealingFactor:
** He can re-grow from anything, including jumping into a volcano. "That was a rough six months."
** Lucifer asks what would happen if he were cut exactly in half. Pierce explains that there wouldn't be two of him -- only one side would heal. He has a theory about why, but Lucifer just sums it up as "Wolverine rules."
* TheHedonist: A former one. Part of why he wants to die is because he's done and tried everything on Earth: food, drugs, sex, etc., and such there's nothing new and thrilling enough left to stave off the despair and boredom.
* HeelFaceDoorSlam: His romance with Chloe seems to genuinely start turning him into a good person. But when she changes her mind on marrying him, he quickly slides back into villainy.
* {{Hunk}}: Ella once tries to cheer him up by having people write nice things about him on cue cards. She draws three at random and they're all complimenting his muscular arms.
* {{Hypocrite}}: Him giving Dan a hard time for his actions in Season 1 and calling him a corrupt cop. While [[HypocriteHasAPoint he certainly has a point]], it comes off in a worse light after the revelation that he is secretly the Sinnerman.
* ImmortalityHurts: He claims that when killed, he ''feels'' all the pain that comes with a mortal wound. It's just that he heals from them. The mid-season premiere demonstrates this with him using several towels to soak up the blood oozing from his chest as he slowly recovers from where Lucifer stabbed him. On another occasion he says he tried to kill himself by jumping into a volcano, and it took him six months to recover.
* InLoveWithTheMark: Pierce wanted to make Chloe fall in love with him in order to break his curse. He ends up falling for her and breaks things off with her because he can't bring himself to use her like that, and it's actually this act of selflessness which takes his mark away.
* IRegretNothing: The fact that Pierce does not regret anything he has done in his life means that should he die, he would go to heaven. Ironically, in his plan to kill Amenadiel, he kills Charlotte Richards who was TakingTheBullet. This one action is the only thing he really regrets, which means that after dying, he would be sent to Hell.
* JerkAss:
** His EstablishingCharacterMoment has him casually dismissing all of his coworkers who gathered to welcome him, for starters.
** You know he's a jerkass when his mother Eve not only refused to mourn his death, but also left Heaven with the expressed hope of getting together ''with his killer''. Granted, Lucifer is an ex of hers from before Cain was born, but ''still''.
* JerkassHasAPoint: On the other hand, he does a good job of pegging all of them accurately. He's just unpleasant about it.
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: He's stoic and cold most of the time, but does show softer moments at times. The last arc of the season reveals him to be a full on JerkWithAHeartOfJerk.
* KickTheMoralityPet: He really does love Chloe (at least he believes he does) and doesn't want to hurt her. But when she stands up to him in Season 3's finale, he tells her he ''will'' kill her if he has to.
* KilledOffForReal: In the season 3 finale, he is finally killed by Lucifer.
* LargeAndInCharge: The lieutenant is really bulked up, to the point that his impressive arms become a meme in-universe. Not to mention he's played by 6'3" Tom Welling, of a size with Tom Ellis.
* TheManBehindTheMan: He's the one behind the Sinnerman.
* MarkOfShame: His birthmark on his arm, a partly-complete circle, is his Mark of Cain. He covers it up with a faux-military tattoo.
* MeaningfulName: One of the suspected etymologies for the name "Marcus" comes from the Etruscan word "mar", meaning "to harvest". Cain was the first farmer.
* MetaphoricallyTrue: The ExactWords type. Pierce claims that the Sinnerman killed his brother. Since he's the ''true'' Sinnerman and the TheManBehindTheMan to the one the LAPD captured, he's technically correct -- the Sinnerman ''did'' kill his brother.
* MrFanservice: Not as much as Lucifer, but he does have his moments where it's highlighted how hunky he is.
* NameOfCain: UrExample, TropeMaker and TropeCodifier all in one.
* NotSoStoic: He's usually pretty stoic, but when Chloe confronts him about his dislike of her, he can't help but laugh a little as he explains how he actually thinks very highly of her. While recuperating from a gunshot later in the episode, he's far more warmer to her, and can't hide his amusement in giving Dan a shitty job.
* OneDegreeOfSeparation: He doesn't know Amenadiel, but Amenadiel knows him: he was the one who gave Cain his Mark. When Lucifer makes the comment that Amenadiel is God's favorite son, Cain figures this out himself.
* RasputinianDeath: Cain has been trying to kill himself since the bronze age and so far nothing has worked. He's tried falling through helicopter blades, acid baths, being eaten by wolves, and so forth. His most extreme attempt was to jump into a volcano, but as he puts it, he always [[HealingFactor grows back]].
* TheReveal: At the end of "The Sin Bin" we find out who and what he really is: Cain.
* SeenItAll: Tells Amenadiel that he's this trope -- he's explored everywhere on Earth, tried every kind of food, sex, music. At this point he's ''bored''.
* SitcomArchNemesis: He hates Dan. Given any opportunity, he'll bring up Dan's mistakes, sarcastically mock his actions, or make it clear how little he thinks of him. After telling Chloe that he won't give her the promotion she wanted because the position she was hoping for would waste her time and is generally a job reserved for shitty detectives not going anywhere, he happily gives Dan the job, who obliviously accepts it under the belief he's finally getting through to Pierce. Since Dan is the one who first figures out that Pierce killed Charlotte, it's safe to say that this attitude came back to bite him in the ass.
* TheSociopath: While Pierce is capable of genuine emotions and attachment, it takes a ''lot'' to get under his gruff and aloof exterior. At best, he comes across as the "tough but fair" veteran cop capable of keeping a cool head under stressful situations because he has no fear of death and [[SeenItAll can't be surprised after eons of living]]. When Chloe cured him of his curse (and by extension, his passion for living), it does not take much for him to want his immortality back and he goes to great lengths to get it back, even if it meant endangering Chloe's life shortly after breaking up.
* TheStoic: Generally always calm and reserved. Because after living for thousands of years and having SeenItAll, little surprises him or gets under his skin.
* TattooConcealsScars: He initially conceals the mark with a military tattoo. As an added insult, his healing factor always dissolves the tattoo after a few weeks, meaning he has to frequently reapply it.
* TragicVillain: Downplayed, but ultimately he is a victim. He wasn't the remorseless killer history remembers him as and was simply the one to win the fight with his brother, but he was cursed with immortality as punishment. It doesn't excuse his actions, but overall he didn't really deserve the punishment he got.
* {{Tsundere}}: Ella thinks he's this for Chloe because of his occasional protectiveness and interest in her. Actually it's because he's pegged Chloe as a potential candidate to kill him.
* TimeAbyss: He's been trying to kill himself since the Bronze Age.
* {{Unperson}}: Having lived for thousands of years, Cain has gotten pretty good with vanishing and reinventing himself under a new persona. The Season 3 finale notes that if Chloe and Lucifer aren't careful about bringing him to justice, Cain will just walk away and they'll never find him.
* VillainousBSOD: When he ''really'' gets down in the dumps following Lucifer's dissolution of their plan, he becomes an ''absolute'' social black hole. Solemn brooding? Check. Scratchily singing ''Music/{{Kansas}}'''s "Dust in the Wind" in his office while playing his guitar and depressing everyone in the precinct as a result? Check. Going off on long, extremely colorful tangents about the meaninglessness of everything? Double check.
* VillainyFreeVillain: For most of the season he doesn't do anything really ''evil'', aside from stringing Chloe along in a false relationship. But he's still largely a {{Jerkass}} to much of the cast, and is interested in getting rid of Lucifer so he can pursue Chloe unopposed. He sheds this status in the final episodes of the season when he begins plotting to murder Amenadiel and turns on the protagonists.
* WalkingSpoiler: A '''''massive''''' one due to his true identity. He's Cain, the world's first murderer, marked by God and cursed to walk the earth as an immortal. Further, he's the ''real'' Sinnerman, and the Sinnerman Lucifer and Chloe were tracking in the first part of Season 3 was just one of his men that went rogue.
* WhoWantsToLiveForever: He's seeking someone able to kill him because this trope is in effect for him. At least, at first; after his mark disappears and his relationship with Chloe ends, he does everything he can to get the mark back and become immortal again.
* WorthLivingFor: Chloe rekindles his interest in living. At first he wants to be mortal and live a normal life with her, but once their relationship sours he wants to get his mark back so he can keep on living.

[[folder:Det. Malcolm Graham]]
!!Malcolm Graham
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/malcolm_graham.png]]
[[caption-width-right:350:''"Do you know what happens when you die? Well, if you lived a life like I did, you go to Hell."'']]

!!! '''Played By:''' Creator/KevinRankin
!!! '''First appearance:''' "[[Recap/Lucifer2016S01E07Wingman Wingman]]" (1x07)

A LAPD officer who was suspected to being a DirtyCop. He rejoined the force after coming out of a coma.

* AnOfferYouCantRefuse: Lucifer offers Malcolm one of his special coins so that he can't go back to Hell [[spoiler:thanks to Amenadiel's threats.]]
* AnythingButThat: Malcolm's entire MO. Having gone to hell for 30 seconds was enough for him to truly appreciate life and food and to never go back there. Malcolm willingly does Amenadiel's deeds and will do anything else just to not go back to Hell.
* AxCrazy: After joining "Team Lucifer" as he puts it, he [[spoiler:develops into a serial killer who targets Satanists.]]
* BackFromTheDead: Technically he died, and was in Hell for a full 30 seconds before [[spoiler:Amenadiel pulled him out.]]
* BigEater: Dying and coming back made him appreciate food apparently, and he is always seen eating afterwards, which makes sense since he...
* CameBackWrong: At the end of Season 1, Maze and Chloe meet Malcolm's wife (after dodging shotgun shells from her, thinking they were her wayward husband), who says that he's been different ever since he came out of the coma. New, barely unboxed tech is strewn around his house, and Maze says she's seen similar all-consuming behavior like this before.
* CopKiller: [[spoiler:He shot his own partner Anthony Paolucci, made it look like a suicide, and framed him over the Palmetto incident with a suicide note in "Et Tu, Doctor?"]]
* DirtyCop: What Chloe suspected of him. [[spoiler:And she was absolutely right.]]
* DomesticAbuse: Strongly implied by this in "Take Me Back to Hell". When Chloe and Maze break into his house, they find the entire house full of delivered junk and his wife trying to shoot at them with a shot-gun, thinking they were Malcolm. Apparently he has been different since his time in the hospital, having spent all of their money and is going to leave everything behind after Chloe and Lucifer set their sights on him.
* TheDragon: For [[spoiler:Amenadiel]] in his plan to kill Lucifer.
* DragonAscendant: [[spoiler: Becomes the final bad guy]] after Amenadiel decides to turn himself around.
%%* EvilIsPetty
* FinalBoss: Serves as this for the first season after [[spoiler:Amenadiel's HeelFaceTurn.]]
* GoMadFromTheRevelation: He was DraggedOffToHell in that brief 30-second pause between dying and getting dragged back up to the land of the living. [[SanitySlippage He really didn't like it]].
* KilledOffForReal: At the end of Season 1, after he [[spoiler: kidnaps Trixie and tries to kill Chloe and Lucifer and nearly does kill Amenadiel]], Chloe shoots him full of lead. Lucifer makes it perfectly clear that he's going to Hell and won't be coming back this time.
* LaughingMad: When confronted with [[spoiler:his killings, devolves into this toward Lucifer.]]
* NoSell: He is completely unfazed by [[spoiler:Lucifer's GameFace. He justifies it by noting he has literally been to Hell and back]].
* PornStache: And when it's combined with his [[CharacterTics trademark wink]], it manages to disturb even Lucifer.
--> It's the wink ''with'' the porn 'stache that's sending the wrong message.
* SerialKiller: Becomes one after [[spoiler:getting the Pentecostal Coin from Lucifer.]]
* WalkingSpoiler: His revival [[spoiler:at the hands of Amenadiel and eventual descent into madness]] is a twist that influences the entire last half of the first season.
* WildCard: Becomes this after [[spoiler:getting the Pentecostal Coin, randomly killing and acting in a manic way.]]
* WouldHurtAChild: [[spoiler:Threatens Chloe that if she won't give him the money, he will kill Trixie.]]
[[/folder]]

!!Others
[[folder:Dr. Linda Martin]]
!!Linda Martin
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[[caption-width-right:350:''"Sometimes we need to lose something to understand its value."'']]
!!!'''Species:''' Human
!!! '''Played By:''' Creator/RachaelHarris
!!! '''First appearance:''' "[[Recap/Lucifer2016S01E01Pilot Pilot]]" (1x01)

A therapist, whom Lucifer charms to get the name of Delilah's boyfriend with the promise of sex. She then becomes his therapist...initially in exchange for sex.
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* AbsurdlyElderlyMother: Gives birth to baby Charlie in her forties. Then again, [[HalfHumanHybrid the baby's father is an angel]], so...[[note]]Plus Rachael Harris really ''did'' get pregnant at around 50, [[WrittenInInfirmity so they wrote her pregnancy into the show.]] [[/note]]
* AllTherapistsAreMuggles: Zig-zagged after she learns about the {{Masquerade}}. She starts out believing that Lucifer is deluding himself with a harmless fantasy, but decides to play along with his "metaphors" to help him through his other issues. When she learns the truth in "Monster", she has a FreakOut, but comes to accept that Lucifer and Maze are still the people she knows them as and resumes working with them as their SecretKeeper.
* AlternateSelf: Has one in [[Recap/Lucifer2016S03E26OnceUponATime an alternate universe]] created by God. Because Chloe became an actress in this universe, she eventually met Linda and helped her get her own reality show where she acted as a therapist for celebrities. This version was last seen betraying her morals for ratings by revealing information to a client that made him upset.
* AmicableExes:
** She and Lucifer remain on good terms after she breaks off their sex-related deal, coming to care for each other as friends.
** Less so with [[spoiler:her ex-husband Reese. She's clearly trying to be amicable but has to keep stressing the ex part to him, as he's obsessed with winning her back.]]
* BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor: She wants Lucifer to tell her the truth. [[spoiler:She gets it, and she doesn't take it well.]]
* ButICantBePregnant: [[spoiler:Is ''very'' surprised to learn that she's pregnant with Amenadiel's baby in Season Four, largely because nobody thought it was possible for a Celestial to procreate with a human. She embraces impending motherhood pretty quickly.]]
* ConstantlyCurious: By the episode "Trip to Stabby Town", [[spoiler:Linda has gotten over the horrifying shock of realizing that Lucifer actually ''is'' the Devil, and now spends the entirety of their sessions probing him for details about Hell and Heaven and so on, much to Lucifer's annoyance.]]
* DarkAndTroubledPast: In "A Good Day to Die" she claims that there's a chance she'd get sent to Hell because of as-yet unspecified things she's done. Later in season 5 it is revealed that she was speaking about her daughter, that she gave birth to when she was 17, then she gave up for adoption.
* DeadpanSnarker: She has her moments, usually when her patients and friends alike start to get on her nerves.
-->'''Linda:''' I'm a therapist, being taken for granted is in the job description. Like, for example, when a friend uses your lunch break for free therapy and doesn't say "thank you".
* GoMadFromTheRevelation: She undergoes instant catatonia upon seeing Lucifer's devil face for the first time and becomes a TalkativeLoon for the next several days, babbling incessantly about divine-related questions. However, as pointed out by Maze, it is amazing that Linda still manages to function normally after the experience, since people who see Lucifer's true face usually go straight-out ''insane''.
* HeroicBSOD: Linda tries to get Lucifer abandon his "metaphors" in the episode "Monster" and pleads for his full honesty. [[spoiler:Upon seeing Lucifer's true face, [[CriticalPsychoanalysisFailure she completely freezes up]], unable to manage anything more than a quivering lip and a ThousandYardStare.]]
* HeroicWillpower: Though not immune like Chloe, she can avoid the instant-seduction that Lucifer's hypnotic eyes does to most people. While it does still instantly break down her professional demeanor, Lucifer notes in the first episode that she's a "complex" one, and he ultimately has to throw in the offer of sex to get the information he wants.
* HotLibrarian: The good doctor dresses professionally, has her [[PrimAndProperBun hair up]], and wears glasses...at least until it's cuddle time with Lucifer.
* IntimatePsychotherapy: As mentioned above, Linda gives Lucifer therapy sessions in exchange for sex, despite it being a huge violation with therapist protocol to have sexual relationships with patients. She eventually breaks off the sex deal, choosing to keep the therapist-patient relationship professional.
* MakingLoveInAllTheWrongPlaces: In the first half of the first season, is usually seen half-naked after having a little cuddle-time with Lucifer in her office as payment for his therapy. Lucky for them, the couch there happens to be a futon.
* MamaBear: While she would do anything for Charlie, [[spoiler:in "A Little Harmless Stalking", she attempted to shoot Adriana's boyfriend Owen for framing her daughter when he believes she doesn't have it in her.]]
* MyGreatestFailure: [[spoiler:Leaving her daughter right after she gave birth to her.]]
* NiceGirl: Sex-related deal aside, she genuinely does want to help Lucifer and cares about him to some degree beyond sexual attraction. As of "Et Tu, Doctor?", she's decided to keep their relationship professional. As the series goes on, she proves to be the most consistently kind, forgiving and reasonable person around.
* NotThatKindOfDoctor:
** She's a licensed M.D. as a requirement to be a practicing psychiatrist but she doesn't actually practice medicine. Her last real medical experience was her medical education years ago. In spite of this, Lucifer and his family keep coming to her because she's the only doctor they know.
** In "A Good Day to Die", despite stating that she has no experience as a physician whatsoever, she is hired to revive Lucifer using defibrillators.
* OddFriendship: In spite of their vastly contrasting personalities, she and Maze become close friends. This continues even after [[spoiler: she finds out that Maze is a demon.]]
* OnlySaneWoman: In addition to being good at helping the other characters process their often-tumultous feelings, she is usually a lot more self-aware and constructive in dealing with her own than they are.
* PalsWithJesus: [[spoiler:She remains on good terms with Lucifer and Maze even after finding out their true natures. To say nothing of her romantic relationship with Amenadiel, which eventually culminated in them having a child together. Becomes almost literal in season 6 when Lucifer and later Amenadiel become the heir of the Almighty throne]].
* ParentalAbandonment: [[spoiler: In season five, she reveals she gave birth to a baby girl when she was younger. When the baby was handed to her she realised she wasn't strong enough to raise her and walked out of the hospital, leaving the baby with the nurses.]]
* SeenItAll: By Season 6, Linda is only a bit surprised [[spoiler: when she met Lucifer and Chloe's daughter who time-traveled from the future]], and even then she quickly recovered.
* ShipperOnDeck: Implied to be one for Lucifer and Chloe as of Season 2. [[spoiler: She's the one who tells him that Chloe is the reason why he doesn't want to leave LA, then she wants to hear about his date with her.]] Confirmed, [[spoiler: when she learns Chloe and Lucifer finally had sex in “Our Mojo,” she’s elated and is celebratory over the news.]]
* StrongFamilyResemblance: [[spoiler: Linda's daughter is a carbon copy of her, including haircut and glasses.]]
* SurprisePregnancy: She is visibly surprised upon finding out that she is pregnant, because the father is Amenadiel, an angel.
* TeenPregnancy: [[spoiler:Linda had a baby daughter when she was 17. It was unplanned and the identity of the father is unknown.]]
* ThousandYardStare: Gets a big one upon [[spoiler: seeing Lucifer's true face]]. When he looks back upon leaving her office, she hasn't moved an inch.
* UnwittingMuggleFriend: She's this for Lucifer, having no idea he's really the Devil [[spoiler: until the episode "Monster", where he shows her his true face.]]
* WhatTheHellHero: Lays into both Amenadiel and Lucifer for all their lies and insane antics by the time of the season finale. At the start of Season 2, she criticizes Lucifer's tendency to use her as a sounding board to justify his own obsessions while ignoring her advice.
* WrongGenreSavvy: A mild example, but [[spoiler: after she finds out that Lucifer is really the Devil, she keeps acting like she's in a far more serious show than she is, treating the angels and demons and deities with reverence and awe and trying to understand the religious ramifications of it all. Since she's actually in a supernatural dramedy where the heavenly host is more like a BigScrewedUpFamily and the metaphysics are far less important than their soap opera-ish shenanigans, this comes across as [[StraightMan hilariously misplaced.]]]]
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Trixie Espinoza]]
!!Beatrice Espinoza
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[[caption-width-right:350:''"Don't you always say that when somebody's going through something, that's when they need their friends most?"'']]
!!!'''Species:''' Human
!!! '''Played By:''' Creator/ScarlettEstevez
!!! '''First appearance:''' "[[Recap/Lucifer2016S01E01Pilot Pilot]]" (1x01)

Chloe's and Dan's daughter, and one of the few children Lucifer isn't immediately annoyed by.
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* AdvertisedExtra: Despite being a main cast member in all four seasons, Trixie has a bad habit of not showing up in the majority of the episodes. She appears in only half of Season 2's episodes (9/18) and ''less than a half'' in Seasons 3 and 4 (10/26 and 4/10 respectively). She leaves that area once Season 5 rolls around, no longer being part of the main cast.
* AffectionateNickname: Her parents are fond of calling her "Monkey". [[spoiler: Her future sister Rory called her "T".]]
* ChildrenAreInnocent:
** Chloe isn't happy upon learning that Lucifer accidentally made Trixie aware of the word "hooker."
** [[invoked]] Much is made of her not knowing of Chloe's OldShame, but it turns out that [[HyperAwareness she knows already]]. How?
---> '''Trixie''': I have the internet. This isn't even in HD.
** She's always excited to see Lucifer. Whether this is just her natural propensity as a child to trust, because her mother works with him, or something more significant remains to be seen.
** She's excited to see [[spoiler:Maze's true face]] in "Monster", thinking that it's part of an elaborate costume.
* CommutingOnABus: Scarlett Estevez is no longer credited as part of the main cast in season 5, so Trixie only appears as in five out of the sixteen episodes, the good majority of them being only cameos.
* CoolBigSis: Rory seem to worship Trixie, calling her T.
* CuddleBug: Hugs both Lucifer (to his discomfort) and Amenadiel.
* EasilyForgiven: [[spoiler: She forgave Maze for calling her a "stupid little brat". She couldn't stay mad at her.]]
* FromTheMouthsOfBabes: She has quite a mouth.
* GirlsLoveChocolate: In her case, chocolate cake. In "Favorite Son", Chloe and Dan find her with chocolate smeared on her face after secretly eating a piece of her birthday cake. In the same episode, when Dan wakes up naked in Chloe's bed after Maze knocks him out, he hides in his daughter's bedroom and tries to convince her to play a game of "sneak Daddy out of the house" Trixie asks for a year of unlimited chocolate cake as payment. Dan agrees. In "Pops", she doesn't resent being sent to her room because it means she'll be able to eat chocolate cake in bed. Dan later offers her a slice as a peace offering when he's late to pick her up. According to [[spoiler: Rory she's still fond of it several decades in the future as she correctly guessed where Trixie hid her chocolate.]]
* HeroWorship: She likes Lucifer at first sight and is gleeful when he and her mother grow closer.
* HollywoodGenetics: She has brown eyes while both of her parents have blue. Technically, it's not impossible, but it's vanishingly rare, as both Chloe and Dan have to possess the same specific genes for brown eyes to make it work.[[note]] In the unaired pilot, Dan is played by a brown-eyed actor, but he got replaced by the blue-eyed Creator/KevinAlejandro in the actual series.[[/note]]
* IntergenerationalFriendship: Trixie is a child. Maze is a thousands-years old demon. May apply to Lucifer too, up to a point.
* LockedOutOfTheLoop: [[spoiler:Despite her close relationships with Lucifer and Maze she's unaware of their true natures and by the series finale she's still in the dark. It's reasonable to assume however that she does eventually find out given that her sister turns out to be an angel.]]
* MeaningfulName: Beatrice is the saintly woman from ''Literature/TheDivineComedy'' who gives her arrogant lover the power to go through Hell and ascend to God's unimaginable presence.
* MoralityPet: Maze likes her and cares for her. Let that sink in.
** She's also one for her father, Dan. He quit being a CorruptCop and started trying his best to straighten out his life for her sake.
* OddFriendship: With Lucifer, who [[ChildHater hates children]]. In one episode she went to see him (and hanging with Maze) to cheer up after her mother and grandmother get into a fight over her.
* OnlyKnownByTheirNickname: As she notes in the first episode, everyone generally calls her Trixie, rather than Beatrice.
* OracularUrchin: She seems strongly drawn to the celestials and as Chloe's daughter is a [[spoiler: miracle child]] one generation removed. She also says very insightful things. [[spoiler: The very first thing she says upon meeting Amenadiel is to compliment his necklace, which winds up being the third piece of the flaming sword.]]
* PracticallyDifferentGenerations: Though [[spoiler: Rory's comments imply that the two are close, the fact remains that the two have a 14 year age difference.]]
* PutOnABus: She disappears a quarter of the way through season 5. It's offhandedly mentioned by Chloe that Trixie is currently staying with her grandma. Upon her return in Season 5B, she appears in only three episodes.
* ShipperOnDeck:
** She is the first person to ship Chloe with Lucifer. She even interprets her (accidentally) shooting him in "Manly Whatnots" as a SlapSlapKiss.
** In Season 3, she picks up on Dan's and Charlotte's continued mutual attraction pretty much instantly and does everything in her power to get them to act on it.
* SoapOperaRapidAgingSyndrome: Downplayed, as no one says anything about it, but during the "one month" between the end of season 3 and the beginning of season 4 it's pretty plain that Scarlett Estevez aged quite a bit more than that.[[note]]The filming dates for the two seasons are a little under two years apart, meaning Estevez aged from about 9 to about 11.[[/note]]
* StepfordSmiler: In "Deceptive Little Parasite", she revealed that she's afraid for her mom ever since she almost died. So she pretends to be okay in front of her parents.
* TrademarkFavoriteFood: She ''loves'' chocolate cake.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Charlotte Richards]]
!!Charlotte Richards
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[[caption-width-right:350:''"There's no hope for me, Amenadiel, I can't change. I'm going to Hell."'']]
!!!'''Species:''' Human
!!! '''Played By:''' Creator/TriciaHelfer
!!! '''First appearance:''' "[[Recap/Lucifer2016S02E01EverythingsComingUpLucifer Everything's Coming Up Lucifer]]" (2x01, body), "[[Recap/Lucifer2016S02E18TheGoodTheBadAndTheCrispy The Good, the Bad, and the Crispy]]" (2x18, real self)

A defence attorney specializing in getting criminals off the hook. She was killed shortly before the Season 2 premiere and her corpse was resurrected when Goddess took over it. Charlotte herself was sent to Hell, until the end of the season when Goddess vacates her body and Charlotte returns to it. Her brief stint in Hell makes her realize that she needs to turn her life around, and she joins the DA's office as her way to atone.
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* AlternateSelf: Has one in [[Recap/Lucifer2016S03E26OnceUponATime an alternate universe]] created by God. Here she reamained the amoral attorney she was since she never died and went to Hell, and despite Lucifer being her client stole from him which Maze allowed as she knew Charlotte was dooming herself to Hell. She was last seen leaving Los Angeles with Dan, apparently in a relationship. Given how she never mentions them and was willing to leave with Dan, another difference between her and the main Charlotte is that she apparently never had a family.
* AmbiguouslyBi: She strikes up a relationship with Dan, but is earnestly confused as to whether she had hooked up with Maze during her missing time and seems a bit disappointed when Maze decides she's not interested in her.
* AmoralAttorney: She used to be one, defending known criminals and even "allegedly" making critical pieces of evidence against them disappear. She has a change of heart after returning from Hell.
* AndIMustScream: She remembers her time in Hell quite vividly; she was forced to watch over and over as her family was murdered by criminals she had represented, a different one each time, while she herself could only just sit there and smile.
* TheAtoner: Realizing she had been sent to Hell for what she did in life, now that she's got a second chance she's determined not to go back there.
* BackForTheFinale: She makes one last cameo in the series finale [[spoiler:having reunited with Dan who finally made it to Heaven]].
* BackFromTheDead: She had been murdered shortly before Lucifer's mother started using her body as a vessel. This is her second chance in life.
* BeneathTheMask: The real Charlotte returns in Season 3, after being resurrected at the end of Season 2, when Goddess left her body. She pretends to still be the tough AmoralAttorney, but she is clearly distraught and mentally falling apart over her own guilt, after literally going through Hell and waking up on Earth with no family and no memories of the past months.
* BirdsOfAFeather: A platonic example. Both she and Amenadiel [[BreakTheHaughty were [[{{Jerkass}} haughty jerks]] have been damned for their crimes]] (Amenadiel has fallen, and Charlotte ended up in Hell), who both undergo a HeelFaceTurn, and want to escape their fate by conforming to God's plan. As a result, they both grow very close to one another, even teaming up to put a pin in Cain's plan, [[spoiler: and she sacrifices herself for him.]]
* BreakTheHaughty: Charlotte's haughtiness got her killed in the first place. After she was resurrected, still clearly traumatized from experiencing Hell, she returns to life with no memories of what has happened to her in the last few months (as Goddess was inhabiting her body). During that gap, she apparently lost a majority of her work, any other relationships, and custody of her children to her husband with no visitation rights. Her time in Hell [[HeelRealization made her realize]] that acting as an arrogant AmoralAttorney filled her with deep regret, so to better herself and [[TheAtoner right her wrongs]], she gives up her job as a defense attorney and joins the District Attorney's office.
* CameBackWrong: Inverted. Unlike Malcolm, she became a better person after being resurrected.
* DefectorFromDecadence: She accepts a job at the DA's office, even though it'll mean less money from her work, because she doesn't want to defend criminals anymore.
* DiedInYourArmsTonight: [[spoiler:She dies in Amenadiel's arms, after TakingTheBullet for him.]]
* ForcedToWatch: Her torture in Hell was being forced to watch as the criminals she got free in life murdered her family in front of her while all she could do was smile. When she returns to Earth she keeps seeing the loop in her nightmares, with Dan added to the victims once they start dating.
* HeavenSeeker: She is traumatized by what is implied to be thousands of years of experience in Hell and resolves to become a better person when she is given a second chance in life.
* HeelRealization: After spending an undetermined amount of time in Hell, she realizes that she's been a horrible person in life and wants to change. [[spoiler:She has another late in Season 3 after she thinks she's found a way to avoid going to Hell again; without the threat of punishment, she reverted right back to her old self and even worse in some ways. A horrified Charlotte realizes she hasn't changed all that much after all.]]
* KilledOffForReal: [[spoiler:Dies after taking a bullet for Amenadiel]].
* MirrorCharacter: She serves as one to Malcolm, who was also brought back to life by a celestial being after seeing hell. Unlike him, she doesn't entirely fall back to her old ways and tries to better herself. [[spoiler:Both are shot to death, but Charlotte's genuine wish to be a good human and TakingTheBullet for an angel (Amenadiel) redeems herself and she is brought to heaven, while Malcolm, who became AxCrazy, shot an angel (Lucifer) and is sent back to hell.]]
* MyGreatestSecondChance: After getting a second chance on life, she realizes that she would go to hell, so she joins the District Attorney's office to better herself and become a better human.
* OneTrueLove: To Dan. [[spoiler:Other than a depression-fueled one night stand with Ella, Dan has not once looked at another woman since Charlotte died. Eventually, when he himself dies and makes peace with his guilt, he ascends to Heaven and finally reunites with her there]].
* RedemptionEqualsDeath: Sort of. [[spoiler:Just as she is about to take another step in fixing the mistakes of the past after helping with the arrest of a woman abuser and murderer she used to represent, she jumps in front of Amenadiel, who was about to be shot by Cain, and dies. Amenadiel in his grief gets back his wings and brings Charlotte's soul to Heaven, fulfilling her wish to never see Hell again.]]
* ScrewTheRulesIHaveConnections: [[spoiler:Late in Season 3, Lucifer reveals his angelic nature to her, causing her to realize she really was in Hell. She takes this as a get-out-of-Hell-free card to do anything she wants and avoid divine punishment for it because Lucifer and Amenadiel will get her out of it. Amenadiel has to remind her that neither of the two of them is in good standing with Heaven and God, and even if they were, it doesn't work that way.]]
* SecondLove: She and Dan were this to each other as both had been married to other people before they met. Prior to her death she had been having an affair and when she returns she finds that they are divorced, and she doesn't make much effort to reconnect with him.
* SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome: In Season 2 the Goddess slept with Charlotte's husband to keep him from bothering her, thought that "time out" involved chaining Charlotte's son to a goal post, spent plenty of time publicly having affairs with people like Dan, treated her job as a distraction, and in the season final seemingly threatened people. As a result Charlotte's find herself divorced from her husband and losing custody of her kids while losing most of her old clients.
* TakingTheBullet: [[spoiler:For Amenadiel. This one true selfless act costs her life, but Amenadiel flies her to Heaven for this.]]
* TogetherInDeath: [[spoiler:With Dan once he makes it to Heaven.]]
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Eve]]
!!Eve
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[[caption-width-right:316:''"I've always been a bit of a rule breaker."'']]
!!!'''Species:''' Human
!!! '''Played By:''' Creator/InbarLavi
!!! '''First appearance:''' "[[Recap/Lucifer2016S04E03OYeOfLittleFaithFather O Ye of Little Faith, Father]]" (4x03)

Eve of Adam and Eve fame. Eve is a human that made it into the Silver City. However, she has come to grow bored of paradise and came down to Earth. Has a shared history with Lucifer.
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* OneManArmy: She is Lucifer's bodyguard and has no problem demolishing a street gang that threatens him and Chloe. She does not even break a sweat while doing so.