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8	A play written by Creator/CliveBarker, detailing the trial of [[{{Satan}} Lucifer]]. The audience attends as would-be jurors and are transported back in time via vignettes of testimony that illustrate the Devil’s actions throughout history. Notable appearances in the court and during flashbacks include [[Literature/TheDivineComedy Dante]], Jesus Christ and Lilith. The prosecution argues that the Devil’s presence on Earth has had a disastrous effect on mankind, whereas the defense counters that the Devil is – and always has been – man’s greatest scapegoat. The Devil demands that he be found innocent and be released to return to Heaven.
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11	!! This work provides examples of:
12	%%* AffablyEvil
13	%%* ArtificialHuman: Lucifer's "son"
14	%%* AwfulWeddedLife: Lucifer and Lilith
15	%%* AscendedDemon: Lucifer's goal
16	%%* BadBoss: [[spoiler: Lucifer]]
17	* BadassNormal: Daniel Mendoza. Even Lucifer is impressed.
18	* BatmanGambit: Pulled off by Catherine in her final statement.
19	%%* TheBadGuyWins: Well yes, but... see MeaninglessVillainVictory.
20	* TheCorrupter: Guess who.
21	%%* CryForTheDevil
22	* DeadPersonConversation: How each of the "witnesses" testify. They did live centuries apart.
23	* [[spoiler: DevilButNoGod]]
24	%%* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes
25	* EvenEvilHasStandards: Even the devil is not an OmnicidalManiac.
26	* FallenAngel: One of the flashbacks covers the fall.
27	* TheFarmerAndTheViper: Lucifer with pretty much anyone he befriends.
28	* FauxAffablyEvil: [[spoiler: Lucifer]]
29	%%* {{Flashback}}
30	* GoMadFromTheRevelation: The Heaven-bound messengers, upon discovering that [[spoiler: Heaven is empty.]]
31	%%* HaveYouSeenMyGod
32	* HeroAntagonist: Catherine, the prosecuter
33	%%* HighHeelFaceTurn: [[spoiler: Inverted with Jane]]
34	%%* HumansAreBastards
35	* JesusWasWayCool: Averted, in one of the least flattering depictions in literature.
36	* LiteralAssKissing: Lucifer asks several characters to do this for him, but politely.
37	* TheLostLenore: Lucifer's witch lover.
38	* MeaninglessVillainVictory: [[spoiler: Lucifer wins the trial and goes back to heaven, on the caveat that he can never return to Earth. It turns out that [[HaveYouSeenMyGod Heaven has been abandoned]].]]
39	%%* OffingTheOffspring
40	%%* OutGambitted: Lucifer, once by [[spoiler: Jesus]] and [[spoiler: again at the end by the prosecution]].
41	%%* OutWithABang: Pia Shim
42	* QuestionableConsent: Lucifer and Pia
43	%%* TheirFirstTime
44	%%* UndyingLoyalty: Lucifer's minion
45	* VillainyDiscretionShot: Well, you can't fit in everything the devil has done into a single play.
46	%%* VillainProtagonist
47	%%* WitchHunt: A literal one in a flashback.
48	* YouAreWorthHell: Or Heaven, as the case may be.
49	%%* YouHaveFailedMe

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