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Main Cast (Lucifer Morningstar) | Heaven and Hell | Other Humans

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Hell

Lucifer Morningstar

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Maze

Mazikeen of the Lilim / Mazikeen "Maze" Smith

"Self-worth comes from within, bitches."

Species: Demon

Played By: Lesley-Ann Brandt

First appearance: "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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• Action Fashionista: Has a diverse wardrobe of leather and skimpy outfits, and is one of the best fighters on the show.
• Adaptational Attractiveness: Played with. Her comic counterpart starts off with one half of her face being that of an attractive woman, with the other half being a decaying skull. "Sweet Kicks" shows her true appearance in a reflection, which is the same as her comic counterpart. She seems to disguise herself with the same glamour as Lucifer. In "Monster", while being out with Trixie for "Trick or Treat", she shows her her real face.
• Adaptational Jerkass: In her relationship with Lucifer at least, in the original comic, Maze was completely loyal to Lucifer, however in this version, she has no problem betraying him on a lot of occasions.
• Adaptation Personality Change: In the comics Maze was proud of her scarred demonic face, unwavering loyal too and in-love with Lucifer (regardless of how many times he's manipulated her) and far more villainous. Here, she and Lucifer are just on-off friends who she fights with and betrays occasionally after season one, she prefers to hide her scarred face and becomes more friendly as the series progresses.
• Adaptation Relationship Overhaul: In the comics, she and Lucifer are lovers, in this version they are just on-off friends. Several episodes have indicated that they used to have sex before the series began but stopped some time ago.
• Affectionate Nickname: She is most often called "Maze", but only by people she considers her friends. For most of season 1, she objects to Chloe's usage of it, since she sees her as a thorn in her plan to return back to Hell, but drops it once they graduate to Vitriolic Best Buds.
• Alternate Self: Has one on an alternate universe created by God. In this world Chloe never became a cop and Trixie was never born, preventing Maze from meeting the people who would help her grow as a person meaning she instead became worse and ended up as the leader of a cult.
• Artificial Human: Artificial living creature, at least. She says she was "forged in the bowels of Hell to torture the guilty." While it's possible she wasn't being literal, Lucifer's mother notes that she doesn't have anything resembling a family, implying that she is an artificial construct. Presumably, this extends to all demons. Season 4 retcons her as a daughter of Lilith however, though with the implication that she "forged" rather than birthed her.
• The Bartender: Her role in Lucifer's nightclub, until she quits in Season 2 to become a Bounty Hunter.
• Be Careful What You Wish For: In the latter half of Season 5, she finally gained a soul. But as a result, she becomes so afraid for Eve when she got shot that she wanted to give Eve her mother's ring which would make her immortals so she doesn't have to feel this way again.
• Big Bad Friend: Maze betrays Lucifer to serve as The Dragon to the current Arc Villain multiple times, notably secretely helping Pierce try to force Lucifer to return to Hell in season three and helping Michael get God's attention so she can gain a soul in the first half of season five, and even attempts to kill God Himself in the beginning of second half of the season.
• Blade Enthusiast: Has a marked fondness for bladed weapons, daggers in particular. Her favorites seem to be a pair of hell-forged karambits that, contrary to earthly weapons, can wound and even kill celestial beings. She's often seen toying with them when her hands don't have anything better to do.
• Bodyguarding a Badass: Played With. Initially her job was to "protect" someone who is invulnerable and immortal. Eventually, it subverted when Lucifer becomes vulnerable, which makes Maze's protection much more necessary.
• Bounty Hunter: After quitting Lucifer's club in season 2 she's delighted to find that you can hunt humans and get paid for it.
• Bruiser with a Soft Center: With her being such a badass bounty hunting demon bodyguard, one could be forgiven for forgetting how sensitive she really is. People constantly tend to do so and end up hurting her feelings.
• Character Development: In season 1, she wanted nothing more than to return to Hell, worried that humans might have a negative impact on Lucifer. In season 2, she's grown fond of a few humans, like Linda and Trixie, and has started to integrate herself into human society by getting a job (as a bounty hunter) and cohabiting with Chloe. By season 4, she chose to remain on Earth, if only to help Linda and Amenadiel raise Charlie.
• Chronic Backstabbing Disorder: She's betrayed Lucifer and the others for the main villain of Seasons 1,3, and 5. By the time of the last one, you can tell Lucifer is very much sick of it.
• Clingy Jealous Girl: She's really not happy when Linda starts dating Amenadiel, despite the fact that she dumped him. By Season 4 though, she perfectly okay with them together (in addition to being their baby's honorary aunt), and has fallen in love with Eve.
• Combat Sadomasochist: Right before her short fight with Amenadiel, she retorts, "You forget. I love pain."
• Cool Aunt:
  • She plans to become this following Charlie's birth.
  • Evidently, she is also this to Rory, who seems to idolize Maze the most out of her mother's close friends, having taken her penchant of trolling people.
• Cool Big Sis: Becomes something of one towards Trixie.
• The Corrupter: To Lucifer, oddly enough. She is always pushing him to act more like the Devil she once knew and less like a human.
• Covert Pervert: While she usually doesn't bother with the covert part, she grabs a bowl of popcorn and sneaks into Chloe's bedroom to watch when she hears through the walls that Chloe is having an Erotic Dream.
• Dark Action Girl: Being Lucifer's bodyguard, a demon, and a total badass.
• Deadpan Snarker: Spends more time making snippy comments at Lucifer than she does actually bartending, it seems.
• Didn't Think This Through: In Season 5 Maze is angry with Lucifer for not taking her with him when he return to Hell. However, as Lucifer lampshaded, she can return at any moment by just asking Amenadiel. Maze's face makes clear that she never considered that possibility.
• Divergent Character Evolution: At the beginning of the series, she and Lucifer were very similar, with Maze being slightly more violent, but in Season 2, her friendship with Trixie, Linda, and Chloe, as well as her fling with Amenadiel in Season 1 has made her more aware and understanding of other people's feelings and her own as well as more open emotionally, while mostly retaining her violent tendencies, while Lucifer is just slightly less eccentric and detached as he was at the beginning, but has grown to have stronger morals.
• The Dragon: Lucifer's right-hand demon. Later serves as this for Pierce in the second half of Season 3, and for Michael in Season 5.
• Easily Forgiven; No matter how many times she betrays Lucifer and the others they never stop giving her second chances.
• Emotional Regression: After she finds out that Linda and Amenadiel start dating behind her back, knowing that she would overreact, she becomes incredibly spiteful and obsessive. She socially tortures both of them into confessing what they did and breaks her friendship with them. When they break up just to please her and Linda apologizes to her repeatedly (even getting her a hatchet as a gift in a metaphorical "burying of the hatchet"), Mazikeen refuses to back down and tells her to "go to Hell" and breaks the hatchet over her knee. She soon tries to numb herself through her own hedonism, increasing her intake of sex and alcohol with reckless abandon, brings up her and Dan's covered murder and calls Trixie a brat.
• Enemy Mine: She clearly hates Michael, as seen by her trying to kill him when he finds her to team up, but she works with him in order to get a soul.
• Erotic Eating: It seems Maze is incapable of doing anything in a non-sensual fashion... not even eating Dan's pudding at the cop shop.
• Establishing Character Moment: Her first scene shows her getting head from a random guy behind the bar at Lux.
  Maze: [momentarily paying no attention to Lucifer] ... Thank you, Patrick. You can go.
• Even Evil Has Loved Ones:
  • She's a vicious, almost completely amoral demon who really enjoys hurting humans, but there are a few persons she honestly cares about. For example, Amenadiel, Chloe, Trixie and especially Linda.
  • Subverted with Lucifer, although she initially cared for him, their relationship becomes more strained throughout the first three seasons and by season four it's hard to tell if she holds any kind of affection for him.Eventually Double subverted in the sixth season where she seems to care him again, to the point of inviting him to her wedding, and cries when she says goodbye to him.
• Even Evil Has Standards:
  • Even her pre-season 1 version was horrified at the thought of Lucifer asking her to rip off his wings.
  • In "Super Bad Boyfriend", she's disturbed that a drunken Dan wanted her to torture him. She refused to indulge him.
  • She was perfectly okay with helping Michael (who was impersonating Lucifer) break Chloe's heart in "Lucifer! Lucifer! Lucifer!" She drew the line at letting him attempt a Bed Trick on her, however, as it was essentially rape by fraud.
• Exposed to the Elements: When one of her bounty hunts brings her to Canada, Maze just packs her usual skimpy leather outfits for the trip^note and a whole bunch of sex toys, naturally. Cut to her shivering in the Canadian winter, followed by a roof avalanche dropping on her head. Demons may be a lot tougher than humans in many regards, but as it turns out, immunity to cold isn't part of the package.
• The Fashionista: Since settling on Earth, she has become something of a fashion hedonist, frequently dressing up in leathery, Stripperriffic clothes. She also dyes and styles her hair differently every season.
• Fire-Forged Friends: She despises Chloe at first and even considers killing her in her sleep. Eventually, Maze warms up to Chloe and by Season 2 considers her a friend.
• Fish out of Water: She feels somewhat out of place on Earth, eventually going to seeking Linda's help to try and get her to fit in with humanity more.
• For Halloween, I Am Going as Myself: In "Monster", while trick-or-treating with Trixie, she tells the latter to turn around before revealing her true face to her. Trixie is overjoyed because it'll get them "so much candy".
• Green-Eyed Monster: She's PISSED when she finds out Amenadiel and Linda are dating. But she's gotten over it by Season 4, and has fallen for Eve.
• Happily Married: To Eve, if the series finale montage is anything to go by.
• The Hedonist: She's introduced casually getting eaten out by some random man while she's working. Lucifer attributes her love of partying and violence to demons not having souls. They know there's nothing for them after death, so they live every moment of their lives to the fullest.
• Heel–Face Revolving Door: While she's introduced as Lucifer's right-hand demon, over time Maze becomes so unpredictable that she's just as liable to work alongside Lucifer and his friends as she is to work alongside the villain of the season against them. This is due to her personality and character arc: Maze is very emotionally volatile and is primarily interested in her own well-being, and her Character Development is learning to genuinely care about others, but she struggles to accept these feelings. She's also very uncertain about what she wants out of her existence and isn't always sure how to go about getting it, and the antagonists of the season either convince her they can help her or her interests happen to align with theirs. The result is a Wild Card who will do whatever she wants based on her feelings at the time, and is liable to change her mind when someone makes a good argument to her.
• Hellbent For Leather: Most of her skimpy outfits contain a significant percentage of black leather. Gets lampshaded repeatedly by various characters throughout the series. Even her wedding dress is made of black leather.
• Heroic Comedic Sociopath: Her various acts or desires of violence are usually Played for Laughs.
• Hidden Depths: Just because she's a Hell demon who takes glee in torturing people, doesn't mean she has no feelings of her own. As shown in "Sympathy for the Goddess" where she breaks into tears because she thought Lucifer was abandoning her.
  • This stems from being abandoned by her mother, as we learn in Season 5.
• Honorary Aunt: To Linda and Amenadiel's son Charlie. Rory, Lucifer and Chloe's Kid from the Future also addresses her as Aunt Maze.
• Hypocrite: She's rather quick to berate other people for their character flaws... even when she herself suffers from the same character flaws. It's most prominent in season 3, when she gleefully delivers a "The Reason You Suck" Speech to Lucifer about his It's All About Me tendencies, even mocking him for being whiny about it. This is while she herself is in the middle of a several episodes long arc of behaving like a total Jerkass to everyone she knows because she's angry about Linda and Amenadiel's relationship and because she's not the most important person in anyone's life.
• I Call It "Vera": When she lends one of her Hell-forged knives to Chloe she tells her it's called "Stabby".
• Identical Grandson: Looks exactly like her mother Lilith did in her youth.
• I Have Boobs, You Must Obey!: A firm believer in this. Unusually for the trope example, she's quite willing to use it on the ladies as well.
  Maze: (When Chloe asks how she got into the police station) Let's just say Samantha at the front desk is no longer into men.
• I Just Want to Be Loved: Come Season 4, and it's become blatant she's desperate for affection, usually as a result for abandonment of any kind.
• In Love with the Mark: She is surprised to find herself falling for Amenadiel after acting as Lucifer's mole, and even saves his life in the Season 1 finale.
• In Love with Your Carnage: Seems to be this toward Lucifer, at least when he is acting like the Devil.
• Interspecies Friendship: She's a demon and considers Linda, a human, her best friend. She's also on good terms with Chloe and her daughter Trixie, who sees her a Cool Big Sis.
• It's All About Me: Mainly as a result of her abandonment issues, she can fall headfirst into this behavior, only focusing on herself and how other people's situations affect her. Adds a slight layer of Hypocrisy when she delivers a "The Reason You Suck" Speech to Lucifer about his self-centered attitude in Season 3— she certainly isn't wrong, but while she is saying this, she herself is conspiring against him and giving all her friends the cold shoulder because she's angry about Linda and Amenadiel's relationship.
• Jerk with a Heart of Gold: She wasn't one of Hell's torturers for nothing. There's a sadistic streak in there, not to mention a certain glee at the prospect of hunting down human criminals for a living, but she also cares deeply for Linda, Trixie, and Chloe, not to mention Lucifer himself, obviously.
• Kick the Dog: She's incredibly cruel to Linda over her relationship with Amenadiel, and calls Trixie a "stupid little brat" at one point.
• Ladykiller in Love: Maze has had many sexual relationship during her life, men and women alike, but she sees herself falling for Eve in Season 4, and searching for a more meaningful connection.
• Lovable Sex Maniac: She's constantly hooking up with people for casual sex and has an impressive collection of sex toys.
• Love Hungry: Much of the time what she wants is for someone to love her and put her first, and she's endlessly frustrated by the fact that while a number of characters do care for her, they always care for someone or something else more.
• Massive Numbered Siblings: She tells Ella that she has thousands and thousands of siblings. However, it's implied that demons don't reproduce like animals, but are somehow created.
  • Season 4 clarifies her status as a daughter of Lilith, the first wife of Adam who rejected God's plan and went on to become a notoriously promiscuous and fertile demon. Some of her siblings even show up to cause trouble this time around.
• The Mole:
  • For Amenadiel, reporting to him about Lucifer in the hopes of getting to go back to Hell.
  • She plans to reverse the situation and be Lucifer's mole on Amenadiel after they had sex.
• Monster Roommate: In Season 2, she moves in with Chloe and Trixie — not that the two of them know that she's a demon (yet).
  • In Season 4, she moves in with Linda after Chloe's discomfort with her true nature becomes apparent following the big reveal at the end of Season 3.
• Mr. Smith: After becoming a Bounty Hunter, she uses the name Mazikeen Smith.
• Ms. Fanservice: She's very attractive, and usually appears in tight-fitting leather attire.
• Never Gets Drunk: Rare are the scenes of Maze and Lucifer at the Lux that don't show them consuming copious amounts of hard alcohol, but unlike her boss, Maze has yet to be seen intoxicated even a tiny bit. Naturally, Hilarity Ensues whenever she's actively partying with humans.
• Nightmare Face: Her true form has half of her face appearing to be horribly decayed.
• Nightmare Fetishist: She loves violence, to put it mildly. She is not called Hell's best torturer for nothing.
  • In "All About Her", it is revealed that Maze's phone ringtone is the infamous "Psycho" Strings from Psycho.
  • She joins Linda's birth class in "Orgy Pants to Work" and is the only person in the room who enjoys a graphic video of a woman giving birth.
• Ninja Maid: Or Ninja Bartender, as Chloe calls her.
• Noodle Incident: Apparently John Constantine helped her in the past which is why Lucifer owed him a favour.
• Odd Friendship:
  • She openly admits to Linda that she made friends with Trixie, and in the same conversation asks if the doctor wants to hang out. These two quickly become her closest friends on the show.
  • 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 Token Evil Teammate, despite Dan being more regretful unlike Maze.
• One-Woman Army: 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.
• Only Sane Man: For the first half of Season 2, she seems to be the only person who knows that Lucifer's mother can't be trusted.
• Pitbull Dates Puppy: Maze is the pitbull. Eve is the puppy.
• Promoted to Love Interest: Inverted. In the comics, she was Lucifer’s love interest. Here, they’re implied to have had some casual hook-ups in the past but never go beyond Platonic Life-Partners.
• Really Gets Around: Her very first scene involves a man going down on her and she is constantly hooking up with other people. She also had a brief relationship with Amenadiel, has slept with Lucifer in the past, and has flirted with pretty much anyone in the main cast save for Dan and Lucifer.
• The Soulless: Being a demon, Maze doesn't have a soul. It not only sets her apart from humans and even angels, it also means that if she ever gets killed, she'll be Deader than Dead since there's nothing of her that could be brought back from either Heaven or Hell. By Season 5, she's come to hate this because she believes it's prevented her from having a romantic attachment with someone, and thus will cause her to die alone like her mother did. The promise of a soul is what causes her to side with Michael in the Season 5 midseason finale. Though he eventually does get one, she seems to regret it when she fears for Eve's life.
• Token Evil Teammate: In the first, third and fourth season. ^noteIn Season 2, Charlotte is also on the team most of the time despite being pretty evil. She enjoys hurting people and has no ethics whatsoever. The only restraints on her behaviour is practicality and the regard of the few people, like Lucifer, who she personally cares about, at least at the beginning.
• Torture Technician: Seems to have been her primary job in Hell, and she's still very much into inflicting (and suffering) pain whenever possible.
• Two-Faced: Mazikeen does indeed have the same half Nightmare Face as in the comics, but hides it the same way Lucifer hides his true form.
• The Vamp: Really enjoys flirting with people to get their guard down, whether it be Amenadiel or Dan.
• We Used to Be Friends: A major subplot of the series is that Maze and Lucifer are no longer as close as they used to be as their lives on earth take them in different directions. Throughout the series Maze makes it vocal that she wants to return to Hell, but Lucifer likes it on Earth. This conflict between them plays a major role in Season 3.
  • In Season 4, Maze and Lucifer have quickly reconciled, although their relationship now seems to be purely professional, without any friendship involved, but her friendship with Chloe is strained after she finds out the truth about her and Lucifer and doesn't handle it well.
• Violently Protective Girlfriend: When Eve is upset over Lucifer cruelly rejecting her, Maze gathers up her weapons so she can "punish him for what he did". While not being Eve's actual girlfriend at the time (much to her dismay), her protectiveness comes from a place of romantic feelings for Eve. When Eve gets shot in Season 5, Maze beats the guy to the floor in rage.

Celestials

Amenadiel

Amenadiel

"No matter how bad things get, the true test is how we choose to respond to the pain. We suffer, or inflict."

Species: Archangel

Played By: D.B. Woodside

First appearance: "Pilot" (1x01)

An archangel sent by God to get Lucifer back into Hell punishing sinners. He really hates Lucifer and is very insisting on him returning to Hell. After Season 1, he gets hit with a big bout of Break the Haughty and subsequently undergoes Character Development, becoming one of Lucifer's allies.

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• Above the Influence: Played With. He's openly disgusted with Lucifer when he finds him in the aftermath of a three-way, but he was also disturbed in a different way when Maze turned down his offer of an alliance to get Lucifer back to Hell.
• The Ace: As the eldest of the angels, he is considered God's greatest general, and is seen as one among the angels, most of whom have a favorable opinion regarding him.
• Adaptational Attractiveness: He's much more handsome than his neanderthalish comic self.
• Adaptational Heroism: After Season 1 he pulls a Heel–Face Turn and becomes a far more heroic character who no longer views himself as always being in the right. This leads him to becoming the new God in the Grand Finale.
• Adaptational Nice Guy: Amenadiel is a far more reasonable and caring being than his comic counterpart ever was, despite his antagonistic role in Season 1.
• Age Lift: Amenadiel in the show's verse is the first angel, the oldest of the siblings. In the comics, that honor belonged to Michael and Lucifer.
• Aloof Big Brother: Amenadiel was the first angel to be created and pretty much defines the aloof, no-nonsense personality that most angels exhibit. Through Character Development, though, this gradually dissipates as the series goes on.
  • Was apparently a Big Brother Bully to Uriel and Micheal, to Remiel he was more of a Cool Big Bro but he influenced her to be cold and dismissive to non-celestial life.
• Alternate Self: Has one on an alternate universe created by God. In this world he never learned about Lucifer's vulnerability around Chloe, meaning he never used Malcolm to try and kill him and never committed the actions that led him to become a fallen angel. This means that he is stuck on Earth with no way to return Lucifer to Hell and while having the desire to form connections with humans, is unwilling to do so since he hasn't gone through the necessary character development.
• Arc Villain: Of Season 1, as his desire to see Lucifer back in Hell is Lucifer's main conflict, and in this he subsequently drives the other major conflicts: he was the one responsible for taking Lucifer's wings and reviving Malcolm as part of his schemes.
• Ascend to a Higher Plane of Existence: In "Partners 'Til the End", he becomes the new God.
• The Atoner: After thoroughly Jumping Off the Slippery Slope in Season 1, and spending Season 2 facing the consequences of it, Season 3 has him trying to practice humility and become a better angel.
• Aw, Look! They Really Do Love Each Other: Despite their initial difficulties during Season 1, the following seasons show that when the chips are down, Lucifer and Amenadiel really do care for each other. One of the main reasons Lucifer even went back to Hell was to protect his nephew, Amenadiel's son Charlie.
• Bash Brothers: A literal example with Lucifer during the Season 1 finale after his Heel–Face Turn, when the two of them take down a room full of gun-wielding thugs.
• Been There, Shaped History:
  • A more low key version. He is responsible for humans associating Lucifer with goats. A few key appearances, a few right words, and things got rolling.
  • Also, season 3 revealed that he is the one who gave Pierce, a.k.a. Cain, his mark and made him immortal.
• Blood Knight: He alludes to a love of fighting when he confronts Lucifer, admitting that he wouldn't have second thoughts about starting a war.
• Body Horror: In Season 2, his wings start to rot as he becomes a Fallen Angel.
• Break the Haughty: Season 2 is full of this for him.
• Broken Pedestal: He starts to feel resentful towards God after He casts him out, and ultimately turns his back on his father in "Monster".
• Brought Down to Badass:
  • Despite losing his powers, he is asked to pull a You Shall Not Pass! with both Lucifer and Chloe's lives at risk, and he single-handedly manages to hold off multiple security guards. Moreover, when they fought, Amenadiel was apparently able to kill Cain nine times in a row.
  • Come the Season 3 finale he's recovered his angelic grace, though he can't slow time anymore.
• Cain and Abel: The Abel to Michael's Cain. While he doesn't hate Amenadiel like he does Lucifer, Michael has no issues using and manipulating Amenadiel and his family for the sake of his schemes against his twin brother. In turn, Amenadiel is irritated by Michael's antics, tells him to go home the moment he figures out his younger brother's impersonation ruse, and outright attacks him after he tries to use Charlie just to screw with Lucifer's life.
• Casanova Wannabe: Due to having No Social Skills, his attempts at impersonating Lucifer when on the pull have to be seen to be believed.
• Cassandra Truth: In Season 3, Amenadiel warns Lucifer not to trust Pierce and that his selfish goal to remove his mark would only lead to bad things happening. Suffice it to say a lot of the catastrophes that occur by the end of the season wouldn't have happened if Lucifer had just listened.
• Character Development: Amenadiel is one of the most dynamic characters on the show, who goes through a lot of development over the course of six seasons. He starts out as a bit of a Jerkass and a Well-Intentioned Extremist in season one, only to go through several Break the Haughty moments, and after having repeatedly Took a Level in Kindness he's become an out-and-out Nice Guy in season six.
• Characterization Marches On: In the first season, Amenadiel was a little naive and hardly discreet towards humans about the fact that god and angels are real. In fact, Lucifer had to stop him from revealing his angelic nature when they buddied up to get his wings back. Now in Season 2, Amenadiel says that humans must not be allowed to discover factual evidence that angels, god, and heaven are real. However, he may be drawing the line between easily-ignored anecdotal evidence (like showing off his powers to mortals) and documented scientific proof (like a blood test of a celestial being).
• Chick Magnet: In Season 5, he becomes the object of attraction for an entire convent of nuns. This turns out to be because he now has the ability to reflect their love for God back at them.
• Chocolate Baby: A Running Gag in the series is humans doing a Double Take whenever Lucifer and Amenadiel claim themselves to be brothers, despite Amenadiel being a black man who has an American accent and Lucifer being a white man who has an RP accent. As they are angels, they don't exactly conform to human racial terms (and much later, the angels Azrael and Remiel, both looking like Asian women, are introduced).
• The Comically Serious: He has his moments. For one example, when he goes to Linda about his "physical" problem (ie. his decaying wings), and she instantly assumes he's talking about erectile dysfunction.
• Compelling Voice: While he's seemingly lost the ability to stop time, he's gained this in its place. More specifically, he has the ability to reflect the love the devout have for God back at them, making them more susceptible to doing what he wants — as seen with the nuns at a convent he visits for the case in "Detective Amenadiel".
• Composite Character: He shares traits with two angels from the comics, though notably neither of them is the comic's version of Amenadiel, with whom he only really shares a name. Like Remiel he is forced to watch over Hell after Lucifer leaves and (at least in Season 1) he ends up corrupting himself doing what he thinks is God's will. Like the comic's version of Michael he is the most favoured of the angels, the only one more powerful than Lucifer, he fathers a half human offspring and is an option to replace God. And in Season 6 he actually does become God just like Elaine Belloc in the comics.
• Deadpan Snarker: While there where hints of a sense of humor in Season 1, it shows more in Season 2.
• Defrosting Ice King: Once he has his Heel Realization over Malcolm.
• Desperately Looking for a Purpose in Life: Gets hit with this hard when he decides that Earth is now his home and no longer needs to get back to the Silver City. He finds a purpose when Linda tells him she's pregnant with his child.
• Disc-One Final Boss: He stops being a main threat by the first season finale and undergoes a Heel–Face Turn.
• The Dreaded: Malcolm fears him, for he can permanently kill him.
• Everyone Is Jesus in Purgatory: A major part of his character arc in Season 3 is making this an Invoked Trope: He's convinced his father had some great plan for him when he sent him to get Lucifer back into Hell at the start of the series, and is trying to make sense of the things that have happened to him to figure out how he fits into His Plan.
• Ex-Big Bad: He lingers on Earth after Season 1 despite his failures to bring Lucifer back to Hell. At first it was because he became a fallen angel, but even after regaining his wings he decided to go back because he had come to be fond of humanity.
• Expy: As the eldest of the angels and their leader, Amenadiel is basically the Archangel Michael with a different name.^note In the Vertigo comics, Amenadiel is not the eldest and Michael (Demiurgos) is a separate character, but the show makes itself clear in the beginning that it isn't a faithful adaptation of the comics anyway. This becomes hilarious and somewhat self-deprecating when he vetoes Linda's suggestion to name their baby after Michael. Season 5, however, reveals that Michael is a separate character and Amenadiel's veto of the name seems to have something to do with his brother's awful personality.
• Fallen Angel: As Lucifer points out, Amenadiel has done a lot of sinful things in the name of sending Lucifer back to Hell. At the start of Season 2, his angelic powers start failing, his wings are beginning to rot, and he's desperately searching for how to redeem himself. Come Season 3, he's fully fallen.
  • However due to his theory of celestials being able to control their abilities subconsciously being proven right, He recovers his powers and wings, minus his time slowing powers that kept him distant from mankind.
• For the Lulz: His whole reason for starting the Lucifer-goat rumor, more or less.
• God: His status at the end of the series.
• Good Is Not Nice: He's an Old Testament-style angel, willing to have Malcolm assassinate Lucifer in order to return him to Hell.
• Heel–Face Turn: After Malcolm is identified as having killed several people, Amenadiel is genuinely remorseful because he's responsible and seeks Lucifer's help to atone by making things right.
• Hero Antagonist: The closest thing the first season has to an overarching villain with his schemes and antagonism towards Lucifer, but his motives are fairly altruistic — without Lucifer down there to keep order, Hell is falling apart and God (and Amenadiel) has an interest in Lucifer going back to put it right.
• Humans Are the Real Monsters: After Caleb is killed, Amenadiel comes to believe that humans have lost their way and his son would be safer in Heaven. But he does realise he was wrong quickly and changes his mind.
• Infinite Supplies: While his lifestyle is considerably more modest than his brother's, he also never seems to lack money despite having no apparent source of income.
• Innocently Insensitive: Even with all his Character Development, it takes quite a long time for him to grow out of this tendency. He'll end up insulting or hurting the feelings of others because he either thinks he's being encouraging, or is too wrapped up in his own concerns to realize the effects of his words.
• Jerk with a Heart of Gold: In season 1, Amenadiel is extremely hostile towards Lucifer and wastes no opportunity to state his dislike of his fallen brother plainly. He starts mellowing out after he realizes he fucked up when it came to Malcolm and his mission with bringing Lucifer back, which gets several people killed. Come Season 2, he's a lot nicer and his relationship with Lucifer is much more brotherly.
• Kneel Before Frodo: After Lucifer takes his rightful place as the new God, Amenadiel is the first to bend the knee towards him.
• The Man Behind the Man: He's responsible for bringing Malcolm out of his coma.
• Meaningful Name: The fake name he gives Linda while trying to dig up dirt on Lucifer, Dr. Canaan, comes straight out of the Old Testament. When Lucifer sees it, he immediately connects it to him.
• Mouth of Sauron: Good guys example, he has been sent by God to enforce his will and give messages to Lucifer, while God himself remains unseen by the audience.
• My God, What Have I Done?: Has this sort of realization after seeing what Malcolm's been doing.
• "No. Just… No" Reaction: He immediately shoots down Linda's suggestion that they name their baby Michael.
• Not So Above It All: He initially seems to be The Stoic, but he's not above snarking with the best of them, admits that he started the Lucifer-goat rumour, and is seen partying crazily during "Lady Parts".
• No Social Skills: As Dan finds out, his improv skills leave a lot to be desired. His "attempt" at acting like Lucifer also backfires horribly, with him failing to seduce anyone, getting into a fist fight with a prostitute's pimp and ending up arrested.
• Odd Friendship:
  • He is a Celestial older than Written History. She is a perky and insightful therapist whom he manipulated to get back at his brother; however, Amenadiel genuinely likes Linda and regrets hurting her feelings, and she forgave him after he apologized. The two even have a brief romantic relationship that leads to a son.
  • He is also friends with Dan, who Amenadiel seems to see as someone representing how anyone can seek redemption. Part of this is likely because Amenadiel is also attempting to seek redemption for his actions in Season 1.
• Papa Wolf: When he finds out he is going to be a father, he embraces fatherhood and does everything in his power to make sure his child will be safe. When another angel threatened to take the baby to Heaven, he beats her up in a duel and makes it clear that he will have no mercy to anyone who harms his child. In "Spoiler Alert" he beats up Michael for playing on his paternal fears about Charlie's safety.
• Paralyzing Fear of Sexuality: Amenadiel tries to scare Maze into complying with his demands, only to recoil in shock and confusion when Maze licks him flirtatiously. He later loosens up enough to start a sexual relationship with her, only to be caught off-guard by developing genuine feelings for her.
• Parental Sexuality Squick: He is so horrified at the sight of Charlotte hooking up with Dan that Maze immediately takes photos of his expression.
• Pet the Dog: Genuinely offers to speak to God on Lucifer's behalf if Lucifer will just go back to Hell.
• Power Incontinence: At the start of Season 2, he's caught by surprise when his power to slow time suddenly stops working and he's seen as extremely worried about this.
• Race Lift: Amenadiel was white in the comics (and incarnated looking like a Neanderthal for some reason). Here, he's black and looks like a modern human.
• Rank Up: He is God by the end of the series.
• Redemption Demotion: He loses his power to slow time shortly after reconciliating with Lucifer probably in order to avoid Story-Breaker Power. He speculates a number of reasons as to why this has happened, but it seems that God is none too happy with him. Fortunately, God is benevolent enough to grant Amenadiel his powers again when Linda's life is in peril. He concludes that his powers were an aspect of his personality and allowed him to stay separate from humanity. When he decides to embrace humanity and stay on Earth, he no longer needs those powers so they go away.
• So Proud of You: After they reconcile, later seasons of the show reveal that Amenadiel is genuinely proud of the character growth Lucifer has gone under during his time on Earth. In fact, one of the reasons he was so against Lucifer and Eve's relationship is because it was causing his brother to regress on his Character Development. Ultimately, when Lucifer becomes God, he's the first to bend the knee towards him, with a small smile on his face.
• Something Else Also Rises: When he has sex with Maze, his wings popped out at a very particular moment.
• Spared by the Adaptation: In the comics, Amenadiel dies not even halfway through the first Lucifer series, being killed by Lucifer. Thanks to a great deal of Adaptational Heroism, he stays alive right up to his ascension in the series finale.
• Stranger in a Familiar Land: Since he lost his wings, he's been wanting to return to Heaven. He got his wish at the end of Season 3, and flew back to Heaven, taking Charlotte Richards with him. But in Season 4, he's come to see Earth as his home now.
• Took a Level in Kindness: Come Season 2, he is less uptight and more personable, even apologizing to Linda for betraying her trust. Possibly due to him learning his lesson in Season 1 due to his actions. Or possibly tied to him slowly losing his angelic status and turning human.
• The Unfavorite: Amenadiel thought he was this, believing that Lucifer was God's favorite son, but later comes to believe that he's God's favorite after he learns that God gave him a piece of Azrael's blade to guard.
• Well-Intentioned Extremist: He wants Lucifer to return to Hell and take control again, and is resorting to some decidedly amoral methods to make it happen.
• Wild Card: Much less so than Maze, but Amenadiel is still rather unpredictable at times. Unlike Lucifer he initially views their father in a good light, but his personal revelations and discoveries about others cause him to have more than one Crisis of Faith and he continuously re-evaluates that perspective. Either way he fairly consistently believes that God has a divine plan for all beings and all things happen in accordance with his will, including all of Amenadiel's experiences that cause him to doubt his father, which means he can trust him after all...right? In short, Amenadiel's evolving views on the nature of angels, God, and their relationships with humans, cause him no end of uncertainty about what his purpose in life should be and what purpose his father intended for him, and the actions he takes (or refuses to take) can vary greatly one week to the next.
• Worlds Greatest Warrior: Although there's some debate between the two over whether he or Lucifer is better, he's referenced several times as God/the Silver City's greatest warrior.

Goddess

Goddess

"The last thing I want to do is to hurt my children."

Species: Deity

Played By: Tricia Helfer

First appearance: "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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• Abusive Parents:
  • She's very emotionally manipulative towards Lucifer and Amenadiel and, while she does seem to love them in her own way, she doesn't care about their needs and wishes, only her own. She escalates the abuse to physical later on, when she starts bleeding light.
  • While she quickly works out how to handle her body's husband, she seems to think that "time out" involves chaining the son to a goal post.
• Amazingly Embarrassing Parents: Even the Devil himself isn't immune. She repeatedly Squicks him out by commenting about the attractiveness and functions of her new body, dancing in his club, showing up at his work, walking in on him having sex...
• Arc Villain: In Season 2; while she spends a lot of it being Ambiguously Evil in regards to her motives for doing so, she spends much of the season manipulating Lucifer and Amenadiel to try and get them to come back to Heaven with her, and goes to extremes to try to get rid of Lucifer's "attachments" on Earth so he'll listen to her.
• Blue-and-Orange Morality: She genuinely doesn't believe that anything she does is wrong and has no guilt for harming humans, including those who had been friendly to her, because to her humans are just her ex-husband's favorite toys. The only "real" people to her are herself, God and all their children, so they are the only things that cause her to have a real emotional reaction.
• Body Surf: When she escapes Hell, she takes possession of a recently-killed human, but goes to another body if the first body is subsequently killed.
• The Bus Came Back: Goddess returns in Season 5B after her husband decides to retire and she returns to pick him up so they can spend the rest of their lives in her own Universe.
• Canon Foreigner: Not just to the tv show, but to the other "source material" (i.e. The Bible). Obviously, there is no Goddess in real world Christianity.
• Creation Story: Lucifer claims that the "Big Bang" that created the cosmos was the result of the Goddess and God having sex.
• Decomposite Character: Depending on what you consider to be the source material.
  • With God. She's the one responsible for various atrocities attributed to him, such as the Great Flood and the Ten Plagues.
  • With Lucifer. She takes on Lucifer's more sociopathic traits from the comics, and his story about leaving the universe to start his own.
• Double Standard: Rape, Divine on Mortal: While trapped in the body of Charlotte Richards, there are many jokes about her having sex with her body's spouse who is The Ghost and naturally unaware of what had occurred. There is no acknowledgment that he only consents to sleep with her because he thinks she is his wife.
• Even Evil Has Loved Ones: She really does love her sons Lucifer, Amenadiel, and Uriel (if in her own twisted way). And as much as she wants to return to Heaven and destroy God for casting her and Lucifer out, she doesn't want her other children to be forced to take sides and destroy each other. So she reluctantly accepts Lucifer sending her in the void where she can start from scratch and start her own universe without God's interference. Eventually God Himself is revealed to be this as she decides to patch things up with Him rather than wage a war when given a chance.
• Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep": In order to keep the identity of Goddess secret, she is generally called "Mom" or Charlotte, the name of her host body.
• Fantastic Racism: She makes no secret of her contempt towards humans, seeing them as expendable. Most likely because she feels God cares more about them than his own family, more so when her son Lucifer grows attached to them (one in particular). Although the only human she seems to really like is Dan.
• Fish out of Temporal Water: Thanks to being locked in Hell for thousands of years and her general contempt of humanity, "Charlotte" hasn't quite picked up on cultural/social norms or normal human behaviour, to the point of embarrassing Lucifer — who doesn't exactly have a lot of shame himself when it comes to acceptable behaviour.
• A Form You Are Comfortable With: Played with. She leaves Charlotte Richards's body in the season 2 finale. When she returns in season 5B, she does so in Charlotte's form. From a Watsonian perspective it's likely "a form I am comfortable with" since she probably just got used to looking like that. From a Doylean perspective it's "a form you are comfortable with", the "you" being the audience.
• Healing Factor: When she first occupies a human body the body heals from whatever the cause of death was, but it only works that initial time. After that, it's as mortal as it was previously.
• Heel–Face Turn: When she returns in season 5 she's much more amenable and happily reunites with her husband.
• Heel Realization: When Lucifer makes her realize her war with God will doom many of her children.
• I Did What I Had to Do: In "Liar, Liar, Slutty Dress on Fire", she confessed to Lucifer that it was her idea for him to be sent to Hell, pleaded God to do so because he was so angry at his son's rebellion that he wanted to destroy him. It's unclear if any of it is true, since the episode ends with her smirking up at the sky (God).
• I Have Boobs, You Must Obey!: Quickly works out that sex is the best way to get Charlotte's husband's cooperation.
• Innocent Fanservice Girl: She did not understand to concept of indecent exposure at first, when Lucifer asks her to take off the slutty dress she's wearing, she simply does so, and strips naked in the middle of a public street. Lucifer is quite horrified at the sight.
• Instant Expert: When she gets bored, she decides she might as well start working as a lawyer at Charlotte's old job. She acquires her knowledge to do so by reading the law books in the library over the weekend. All of them. Even Lucifer is momentarily taken aback.
• Intrigued by Humanity: While she might not admit it, she enjoyed some of the things humanity has created, like vodka, espresso and sex. And Dan.
• It's All About Me: Several times.
  • Knowingly allowed Azrael's blade to be stolen, despite knowing the horrific carnage it's capable of, because she wanted God's attention.
  • She flat-out doesn't care that Lucifer doesn't want to return to Heaven with her, and tries to make him leave by attempting to blow up Lux, then Chloe.
• Jerkass Gods: It is mentioned that while she and God made the angels together, humanity was made by God exclusively. Because of this, she is confused, perplexed and contemptuous of mankind. She also admits to causing the Flood in "God Johnson" and Lucifer suggests she's responsible for some of the other Old Testament disasters attributed to God such as the plagues.
• Karma Houdini:
  • As of "The Good, the Bad, and the Crispy", Lucifer uses the flaming sword to help her get outside of their universe, enabling her to escape police justice and start her own world. Of course, not being able to see her sons again could be karma enough.
  • This happens again in Season 5, where she forgives her husband for everything that happened and they both leave to her own universe.
• Lethal Chef: Has a habit of utterly destroying everything she tries to cook.
• Light Is Not Good: Her true form is a being of light that needs a human vessel to exist on Earth, and she is a human-hating manipulative, and downright abusive mother.
• Lovable Sex Maniac: While she's dismissive of humans and thinks them well beneath her, and sex is initially just something she uses to shut her human husband up, she's eventually revealed to have discovered she's acquired a real liking for it and tells Lucifer he's clearly inherited his attitude regarding sex from her.
• Mad Bomber: She tries to manipulate someone into blowing up Lux, in a distorted attempt to get Lucifer to return to Heaven with her. When that doesn't work, she tries to blow up Chloe.
• Mama Bear: Say what you want about her, but when push comes to shove, she'll literally go through Hell to save her children.
  I have a paralyzing fear of the place, but I would face a thousand Hells to save my son!
• Manipulative Bitch: She'll stop at nothing to get what she wants.
• Ms. Fanservice: Like her son, she has a habit of appearing naked at uncomfortable moments and knows how to play on people's desires to get her way.
• Never Got to Say Goodbye: Lucifer sends her out of the universe before she can say goodbye to any of her other children. When she briefly returns in "Nothing Lasts Forever" she reveals she wasn't entirely happy about that and takes the chance to say a proper goodbye to Amenadiel.
• No Social Skills: She is extremely confused by humanity and her attempts to fit in are... less than successful. That's one of the reasons she contempts humans.
• Not Evil, Just Misunderstood: She certainly acts that way when she appears dazed, confused and pleading for Lucifer's help at the end of the Season 2 premiere. In the second episode, she appears mercurial and a little bit ditzy. The end of the episode shows it might all just be an act.
• Not Me This Time:
  • She denies being involved in the murders of two of Lucifer's lovers in "Stewardess Interruptus". And, indeed, she's innocent of this.
  • In the Season 2 finale, after confessing to the Accidental Murder of Chet Ruiz, she denies having anything to do with the cleaner's death. Sure enough, the actual killer was Chet's brother.
• Old Flame: After spending most of Season 2 blaming God for everything and seeking to overthrow him, in Season 5B she returns to give her husband a second chance and doesn't hesitate to kiss him once they reunite.
• Put on a Bus: At the end of season 2, she moves to a void, where she can create her own universe away from God.
• Revenge: She wants to kill God for casting her into Hell.
• Start My Own: She leaves the universe to become the Creator God of her own. Apparently there are centaurs in her world. When she returns she tells God that it isn't as difficult as he always claimed it was.
• Supernaturally Young Parent: Tricia Helfer is only four years older than Tom Ellis (Lucifer) and actually four years younger than D.B. Woodside (Amenadiel). It's unclear precisely how old Charlotte Richards was supposed to be when she died, but she was young enough that Lucifer and Amenadiel knew it would be awkward to explain how she's their mother. She eventually tells Chloe that she's their stepmother.
• Super-Strength: She possesses a much greater deal of strength than most people, an ability that she first discovered when she was attacked by a mugger, and accidentally killed the guy in one hit.
• Wounded Gazelle Gambit: In the second episode of Season 2, Lucifer accuses his mother of this, although it's not shown whether it's true.
• Villainous Breakdown: She suffers this in "The Good, the Bad and the Crispy" when she learns that Lucifer was going to leave her trapped in Heaven so she and God would destroy each other.

Michael

Michael

"How do you like the mess I've made, Samael?"

Species: Archangel

Played By: Tom Ellis

First appearance: "Really Sad Devil Guy" (5x01)

Lucifer's twin brother. The Michael who was the general of God's armies and ultimately squashed Lucifer's rebellion. He comes to Earth in season five to - in his own words - impersonate and take over Lucifer's life on earth.

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• A Form You Are Comfortable With: Downplayed and Exploited. His regular appearance isn't monstrous, but when he appears to Dan in "Our Mojo" he does so in bright light and long robes, to play on what Dan thinks an angel would look like.
• Adaptation Dye-Job: In the comics, he and Lucifer were both blonde. Here they're both played by the brunet Tom Ellis.
• Adaptational Ugliness: Downplayed. While he's played by the rather handsome Tom Ellis, Michael's default posture is shown to be rather poor compared to his confident twin, often favoring one of his shoulders as though he had a hunchback. His dress-sense is far less classy than his brother - preferring Earth-tone jackets and a turtleneck sweater - and he is given a gnarly scar on his face by Lucifer as a warning to stay away from his friends. This is in contrast to the blonde-haired muscular Adonis that his comic book counterpart was.
• Adaptational Villainy: He wants to take Lucifer's life as his own. This is very much in contrast with his comic book self, who was a relatively kind and selfless individual compared to his brother.
• Adaptational Wimp:
  • In line with Lucifer's own. In the comics he's nigh-omnipotent, equaled only by Lucifer and surpassed only by their father. Here, he can be manhandled by Maze (though to be fair, she did a surprise attack), and Amenadiel can seemingly fight him on equal terms.
  • When he fights his twin, Lucifer struggles but is ultimately able to subdue him enough to give him a nasty scar to remember him by.
• Age Lift: Since it's implied that Lucifer is one of the younger siblings, with characters like Amenadiel and Uriel being older, the same would be true for Michael. In the comics, both Michael and Lucifer were the first Angels created and helped the Presence in creating the universe.
• Always Identical Twins: Looks exactly like Lucifer, which makes it easy for him to pose as his brother.
• Archangel Michael: God's right hand, the greatest of the Archangels. General of God's armies, and Arch-Enemy of Lucifer. That's him.
• Arch-Enemy:
  • Towards Lucifer. Within the first two episodes of Season 5, he manages to piss off Lucifer more than any other Arc Villain in the entire series thus far, including Cain. It's indicated that their relationship has always been like this, even before Lucifer's rebellion. After he orchestrates Dan's death, Lucifer is fully willing to go to war with him, and his body language in the Season 5 finale implies that he was willing to behead Michael before ultimately stopping himself.
  • Towards Chloe, especially during the final two episodes of Season 5. As if ordering Dan's death wasn't enough, the finale has Michael killing her, which also caused Lucifer's death once he went to Heaven so he can save her. Although both end up revived, it's made clear that Chloe was incredibly close to killing Michael after her resurrection.
• Arc Villain: Of Season 5.
• The Atoner: Word of God says this happened to him after Season 6 as during his punishment he eventually becomes a patient of Lucifer's and the twins work out their issues while Lucifer helps Michael seek redemption for his actions.
• Bed Trick: Attempted this with Chloe in "Lucifer! Lucifer! Lucifer!" despite Maze's best efforts to stop him. Thankfully, Chloe herself had already seen through the ruse and stopped it from going any further.
• Berserk Button: Do not imply that Lucifer is better than him or express any preference for Lucifer over him. Also, don't call him Mi-ka-el.
• Big Bad: He's been manipulating events in Lucifer's life even before rebelling against God (in fact, Michael manipulated him into doing so), is Lucifer's most personal enemy, and has plans on a much bigger scale than the other villains, planning to become God.
• Cain and Abel:
  • The Cain to Lucifer's Abel. Apparently, he's been screwing over Lucifer by manipulating him all his life, including planting the idea of rebellion in Lucifer's head back at the dawn of time, and causing the original sin and thus the fall of humanity.
  • He's also the Cain to Amenadiel, in another contrast to Lucifer. While Lucifer and Amenadiel do bicker a lot, it's largely harmless; they genuinely do love each other, to the point that Lucifer went back to Hell to protect Amenadiel's son Charlie. Meanwhile, Michael puts up the pretense of caring about Amenadiel, but has no issues preying on his fears for his son for no other reason than to screw over Lucifer. Tellingly, Amenadiel's only issue with "Lucifer" coming back was the potential danger that it put Charlie in. When he realized that "Lucifer" was actually Michael, he point-blank told him that he didn't belong on Earth and to go back to Heaven, even though Michael's presence was technically causing no damage.
  • In Season 5B, he kills his own sister Remiel.
• The Chessmaster: Claims to have been one in order to ruin Lucifer's life from the dawn of time. However, he's only seen using coincidences and people's fears to get his plans moving, and even then, they don't usually work out (as far as we know), making him closer to a Manipulative or Opportunistic Bastard.
• Color-Coded for Your Convenience: His wings are black to contrast with Lucifer's white.
• Compelling Voice: Much like Lucifer and Amenadiel, he has an ability like this. While Lucifer draws out people's desires and Amenadiel's reflects back their love for God (if they have it), Michael draws out their fears.
  • Season 5 reveals that his voice is strong enough that he was able to manipulate his father and make him believe that he was losing control of his powers.
• Composite Character: With Lucifer having heavy Adaptational Heroism from the Biblical accounts, Michael inherits his more negative traits— his tendency to lie repeatedly, his ability to manipulate others by playing to their fears, and his intense jealousy and hatred for another celestial figure that drives his actions. He also has black angel wings instead of Lucifer's white, making him look more like a Fallen Angel than his brother. The show practically lampshades this when in Season 5 Dan refers to Lucifer as "the Prince of Lies", when Michael is a far more deserving candidate for such a title.
• Consummate Liar: While Lucifer Will Not Tell a Lie, Michael traffics almost exclusively in them. He does it so often that most characters have a hard time believing him about anything, Michael often relying on doubt (being able to literally sense the fear that it creates) to carry his falsehoods for him. He's so good at it sometimes that it's even hard for the audience to tell what's a lie and what's a carefully picked truth.
• The Corrupter: Manipulates Dan into shooting Lucifer. Taken further, he gave Lucifer the idea of his rebellion against God in the first place, and corrupted early humanity by causing the original sin.
• Decomposite Character: Pretty much all of Michael's personality traits were given to Amenadiel instead, with Michael being reimagined as a more villainous character. Even having a half-human child was given to Amenadiel and in Season 6 the same was given to Lucifer.
• Defeat Means Menial Labor: In "Buckets of Baggage", it is revealed that since losing to Lucifer in the angelic war, Michael has been condemned to become a janitor in Hell.
• The Dreaded: He became feared by most of his siblings by the Season 5 finale, thanks to him having the Flaming Sword, which can erase them from existence.
• Driven by Envy: Though he denies it, it's obvious that his actions during Season 5 are driven by his intense jealousy of Lucifer. Maze and Chloe, who had never even met Michael before, pin him down as this easily, and his brother Amenadiel indicates that his jealousy issues are common knowledge in their family.
• The Dutiful Son: He sees himself as the responsible brother who's always having to pick up the slack for his feckless twin. In reality, he's just a self-centered prick who's out to make everyone as miserable as he is.
• Even Evil Has Standards: Despite his utter hatred for Lucifer, he can't deny his brother's rant about how much of a bad parent God has been to them and to all their siblings.
• Evil Cannot Comprehend Good: A large part of why he failed to successfully impersonate Lucifer is that he doesn't understand (or rather refuses to acknowledge) the genuine Character Development that Lucifer went through during his time on Earth, even deriding Lucifer's selfless decision to go back to Hell to protect Charlie and Chloe as a charade. What initially clued Chloe in on the switch was that Michael tried to use Maze to hurt her— the real Lucifer would've never done that to Chloe.
• Evil Counterpart: Acts as a Foil that gives us a look at how Lucifer could be if he lived up to humanity's perception of him: a Consummate Liar, a Manipulative Bastard, and a very jealous and vindictive person. Furthermore, while Lucifer realizes that it is feelings of guilt that keep people in Hell, and he isn't actively forcing evil upon them as culture may assume, Michael actually does intentionally corrupt people, as far back as the fall of Lucifer and early humanity.
• Evil Is Petty: Everything he does is driven not out of greed or lust or self-interest like the other Arc Villains of the series, but out of an obsessive hatred for his twin brother, and he is willing to do everything in his power to spite him even if it means ruining the lives of everyone he ever cared about, including their brother Amenadiel. Michael's jealousy of Lucifer comes to unreasonable and incredibly minor points, such as changing his name from Mi-ka-el to Michael just so it won't rhyme with Samael, and hating his own face just because it's the same as Lucifer's.
• Evil Twin: Looks exactly like his brother Lucifer and is a very malicious, conniving, and overall unpleasant person who functions as the Big Bad of Season 5.
• Evil Uncle: Lucifer accuses Michael of causing Charlie's illness just to mess with Amenadiel. Although he initially denies it, during the fight Michael toys with the idea.
• Fantastic Racism: Unlike the rest of his Heavenly siblings, Michael has no respect for humans, thinking of them as "toys" that he can break at his leisure. In fact, he caused humanity to be expelled from the Garden of Eden. Even his own half-human nephew Charlie means nothing to him.
• Face Death with Dignity: After a temporarily superpowered Chloe manhandles him and weakens him enough, Lucifer is ready to kill him with the Flaming Sword, Michael willingly gets on his knees and faces his demise with his wings open. However, Lucifer settles for just cutting his wings off instead and offering him a chance to redeem himself.
• Foil:
  • Everything Lucifer is, Michael is not. While Lucifer brings out and reflects people's desires, Michael does this with people's fears. While Lucifer Will Not Tell a Lie, Michael is a Consummate Liar. While Lucifer is treated like the prodigal son in his family (while still pretty popular among his siblings regardless), Michael became God's right-hand man while his toxic personality has made him The Un Favourite. Lucifer is an egotistical hedonist, but any harm that he does is usually out of ignorance and he is a genuinely nice person beneath it all and adheres to a consistent moral code; Michael puts on airs of being an Embodiment of Virtue (to the point where his Lucifer impression suffers for it), but deep down he is a petty, jealous sadist whose schemes and machinations are all built on a desire to tear Lucifer down no matter how low he goes. Especially poignant is their treatment of humans— while Lucifer does recognize the darkness of human nature, he also recognizes the good, and has never treated human life as insignificant and worthless. Michael doesn't give a damn about humans, calling Lucifer's loved ones "toys", and treats his ruthless manipulation of them as simply "breaking" them to draw out Lucifer. He also lacks Lucifer's sense of fashion, dressing in noticeably cheaper, duller suits with brown being a common color. It's a testament to Tom Ellis' skill that he can play both a handsome charmer and a total creepy loser in the same scene.
  • Even the treatment of their family differs. Lucifer has vitriolic relationships with almost all his siblings, mostly rooted in the lingering wounds over his rebellion, but when it comes down to the wire he genuinely seems to care about all of them. He has a mostly positive relationship with Amenadiel and even went back to Hell to protect Amenadiel's son Charlie, was devastated by Uriel's death (even though he killed Uriel to protect Chloe) to the point that it was his Hell loop, and is similarly hit hard by Remiel's death, even going out of the way to help Amenadiel in giving her a proper burial. Michael, meanwhile, puts on the pretense of caring for his siblings and is mostly polite to them, but in the end only sees them as pawns at best and enemies at worst. He screwed around with Amenadiel and his insecurities over Charlie just to hurt Lucifer, and flat-out murdered Remiel without any regret after he figured out that she was spying on him for Lucifer. That's not even getting into how almost all the terrible things that he does are done out of his irrational hatred and jealousy for his twin Lucifer, even though Lucifer himself never really cared for their Sibling Rivalry until Michael involved his loved ones.
• Foreshadowing: When Linda suggests naming her and Amenadiel's son Michael, Amenadiel quickly shuts down the proposition, completely serious. Come Season 5, we learn why.
• Godhood Seeker: Turns out his true plan is to usurp his father as God.
• Good Wings, Evil Wings: Not only are Michael's wings pure black, but the right one is clearly injured and weaker than the left.
• Greater-Scope Villain: For Season 1 and 4, by manipulating Lucifer into retiring and entering the Garden of Eden.
• Hated by All:
  • For people who have actually met Michael, he is this. He's looked down on by most (if not all) of his family for his Manipulative Bastard-tendencies, and it doesn't take long for most of Lucifer's loved ones to reject him in favor of his brother. Lucifer even lampshades this, pointing out that all Michael has ever really wanted was to be as loved and revered as Lucifer, something he still fails at even after Lucifer's failed rebellion.
  • Made worse in Season 5B where he causes the death of Dan and then actually kills his sister Remiel and Chloe himself. Remiel's death in particular is such a heinous act that Lucifer was genuinely surprised that only two angels were willing to change sides over it.
• Hate Sink: From the moment of his first appearance, he starts kicking puppies and doesn't stop. From impersonating Lucifer to screw over his life on earth, trying to do a Bed Trick on Chloe (something that disgusts even Maze), nearly ruining Dan's friendship with Lucifer and co. by exposing Lucifer's true identity as the Devil, and kidnapping Chloe and sending everyone into a frenzy while they try to find her, all while preying on the fears and insecurities of the entire main cast, there hasn't been one redeeming trait shown about him at all. No wonder Amenadiel didn't want to name his son after him. After he kills Dan, the rest of the main cast starts baying for his blood, including his former ally Maze, and with all of them refusing to let Michael to become God even though it means going to war with an entire army of angels.
• Hoist by His Own Petard: For all his talk about being The Chessmaster, Michael makes several bone-headed mistakes that hinder his plan greatly (also see the Out-of-Character Alert and Evil Cannot Comprehend Good entries):
  • He alienates Maze, his first and (at the time) only ally, by trying to perform a Bed Trick on Chloe, notwithstanding the several moves he's made to make her hate Lucifer, the person he's impersonating for this Bed Trick.
  • Rubbing in Lucifer's face that he's manipulated him since the dawn of time, even if it turns out to be true, was still a very stupid thing to do, since his brother is more powerful than him and being manipulated is his biggest Berserk Button. As a result, the only reason that Michael got away alive is that Lucifer chose not to kill him, but he still disfigures him, as a warning to stay away from his loved ones.
  • Kidnapping Chloe turns out to actually make things worse for his plans, since Lucifer actually gets the courage to say "I love you" to Chloe, Dan ends up understanding that despite being the Devil, Lucifer actually cares about Chloe and isn't that evil, and Maze is completely pissed that he kidnapped her friend, forcing him to promise her a soul (something that is considered impossible, which he probably knows) to keep her on his side.
  • His decision to start a war with Lucifer over the throne of God ultimately proves to be this. Originally it was just supposed to be a simple election, and despite Lucifer's popularity with their siblings, most of them were going to back Michael simply because they didn't want things to change too much and Michael had proven himself capable of keeping things running smoothly. Lucifer, while still refusing to give up, was going to respect the result of the election regardless. However, Michael's decision to escalate things into a war to force Lucifer back into Hell instead made Lucifer determined to ensure that Michael would not become God after he orchestrated Dan's death and later killed Remiel, finding his brother even more unworthy of the role than himself. End result: Michael gets his ass kicked by Chloe, his wings cut off by Lucifer, and is forced to bend the knee to the person that he hates more than anyone else in existence as Lucifer becomes God.
• Hypocrite: He claims that he wants to keep his family safe yet he kills his own sister Remiel and merely sees his siblings as pawns
• Identical Twin ID Tag: Other than his black-colored wings, Michael has an American accent, compared to Lucifer's RP one. He also prefers plainer clothes in contrast to Lucifer's Sharp-Dressed Man. In episode three Lucifer cuts Michael's face with a demonic knife, leaving a permanent scar across his face that further differentiates them and ensures that Michael can never impersonate Lucifer again.
• I Just Want to Be You: Michael is drive by nothing more than envy for his more popular twin, to the point of deciding to steal Lucifer's life on Earth when he originally planned on destroying it.
• I Know What You Fear: Just as Lucifer can get people to confess their deepest desires, Michael can unearth a person's deepest fears. This gives him an intimate understanding of what people are afraid of, something he exploits by planting seeds of doubt with his constant falsehoods.
• Insistent Terminology: 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.
• Irony: He is selfish, petty, creepy, manipulative, a liar, toxic, and just all-around evil. He also has sinister black wings in contrast to Lucifer's white ones. In other words, he acts and looks more like traditional depictions of the Devil than Lucifer does.
• Manipulative Bastard: You know all those stories about how the Devil deliberately tempts and manipulates others to make them fall? You know how Lucifer very much does not do that? Well, Michael very much does.
  • Lucifer even calls him a manipulative bastard, name-dropping this trope.
• Mouth of Sauron: By the time Michael starts meddling in Lucifer's life on Earth, he had become the only angel that God talks to anymore, buffering the rest of the Silver City's direct contact with him.
• Mythology Gag: Lucifer scars Michael's face as payback for manipulating his friends, the scar itself barring an uncanny resemblance to the scar that Lucifer himself was given by Mazikeen at the end of the original comic's run.
• Number Two: Towards God.
• Out-of-Character Alert:
  • Several, while he was impersonating Lucifer. For all his hatred of him, it becomes blatantly clear that Michael doesn't understand his brother's character at all; on top of the lying and seemingly virtuous turn, his attempt to hurt Chloe through Maze ended the charade then and there, with Chloe just playing along for the rest of the episode, waiting for the right moment to expose him.
  • Amenadiel easily manages to figure out the ruse after he realizes that "Lucifer" tried to take advantage of his fears— which, considering that Amenadiel is, by virtue of being Lucifer's brother, also Michael's brother, is hardly surprising. It takes a special amount of arrogance for Michael to believe that he could have fooled his older brother for any longer than a day.
• Paper-Thin Disguise: He looks like Lucifer and can imitate Lucifer's RP English accent but that's where the similarities end, he doesn't crack jokes during the investigations or hit on women, this is what clues Chloe in that Michael is not Lucifer.
• Personality Powers: Michael is a sociopath who has little patience for the well-being of others except for his obsessive desire to make Lucifer miserable, the kind of personality that would take every advantage of having the power to fish out people's fears.
• Pet the Dog: While drinking at Lux before heading back to Heaven in "Family Dinner," Michael expresses sympathy to Maze for being unable to acquire a soul as she wanted. Then again, since this is Michael saying it, it's unclear how truthful he was being.
• Red Right Hand: When Michael reveals his wings to Mazikeen to prove that he's not Lucifer, the right one is noticeably injured and tattered compared to the healthy and powerful left one. Even when he's pretending to be Lucifer, Michael seems to unconsciously hold his right shoulder higher than his left, and when he's not pretending, he has some trouble with the right side of his body that leaves him with a crooked slump.
• Satanic Archetype: As insane as it seems, Michael behaves more like the stereotypical idea of Satan than the In-Universe Devil. His motivations are based on sheer sadism brought on by a wounded ego towards his brother, even implying that he planted the idea into Lucifer's head to rebel against God. He is infamous for his lies (making him the "King of Lies"), he corrupts those around him like Amenadiel and Dan into doing genuine harm unlike Lucifer's less damaging Poke the Poodle temptations, his powers are based around causing chaos through fear and doubt; even his scarred face, lop-sided posture, and mangled wing all make it look like he was the one who fell instead of Lucifer, having once been beautiful before being permanently scarred by wickedness.
• Save the Villain: In the season 5B finale Lucifer spares Michael's life, giving him a chance to atone for all his wrongdoings. However, he also cuts off his wings, just to be safe.
• Sibling Murder: Kills his sister Remiel upon learning she's a spy for Lucifer and Amenadiel.
• The Sociopath: Has no real empathy for others, and has no issues preying upon their fears and insecurities in order to manipulate them to his own ends (namely, screwing over his brother Lucifer). In fact, the only real emotion that he seems to express is the intense hatred and jealousy he has for his twin brother. He'll even kill his fellow angels, as was the case with Remiel, if he has to.
• The Starscream: His true plan is usurping his father as God.
• Straight Edge Evil: When pretending to be Lucifer, one of the biggest flaws in the disguise is that he doesn't behave as impulsively and hedonistic as his prodigal twin. When working the case with Chloe, he overlooks every opportunity to crack jokes and do anything inappropriate with the witnesses. He acts cordially with Dan, he keeps himself focused on the case and even forgoes any potential hijinks in-favor of taking a moment of repose, something that Dan picks up on immediately. When Michael tries recalibrating and making it look like he's having sex with Mazikeen, it only confirms Chloe's suspicions instead.
• The Teetotaler: When playing as Lucifer, one of the things he won't do is drink, often picking water instead, overlooking one of the vices that Lucifer practices most.
• Twin Switch: Passes himself off as his twin brother while Lucifer is busy ruling Hell. Thankfully, Michael is horribly bad at trying to act like his brother.
• Villain Decay: When he first appeared, he was God's right hand man and a serious threat to the characters, but because of his desire to ruin Lucifer's life, he quickly proves himself to be nothing more than a weak and petty man. While he does cause Dan's death and wins the vote to be the new God, he is still beaten by Lucifer, who then makes him Hell's janitor, where the demons feel comfortable enough to make fun of how convoluted his plan was.
• Villainous Crush: On Chloe while impersonating his brother. His infatuation with her makes him want to take his place forever rather than just ruin Lucifer's life in Los Angeles, as was his original plan.
• Would Hurt a Child: Somehow gives his infant nephew Charlie a common cold to exploit Amenadiel's fears on his son's mortality.
• Wound That Will Not Heal: Considering angels can heal themselves and dictate the shape of their physical forms via self actualization — witness Amenadiel's wings rotting off when he falls in Seasons 2 and 3, and Lucifer's devil face and bat wings re-emerging — it's telling that Michael's right wing appears weak and injured, affecting his posture even when his wings are hidden. Later in the season, Lucifer gives Michael a scar across the face that does not fully heal, due to it being caused by Hell weaponry.

Rory (Spoilers Unmarked!)

Aurora "Rory" Decker-Morningstar

Species: Nephilim

Played By: Brianna Hildebrand

First appearance: "Nothing Ever Changes Around Here" (6x01)

A mysterious new angel with a vendetta against Lucifer, who turns out to be his and Chloe's disgruntled and rebellious half-human daughter from the future.

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• Antagonistic Offspring: She's introduced wanting to kill Lucifer for seemingly abandoning her and Chloe. She eventually comes around after spending time with him, seeing how much he cares and eventually learning why he was absent.
• Anti-Anti-Christ: Downplayed as Lucifer is an All-Loving Hero by the time he fathered her, and at no point is her potential status as the Antichrist ever mentioned but she's still Satan's daughter.
• Arc Villain: The closest thing to an antagonist in season six until Le Mec escapes in the final two episodes, as she tries to kill Lucifer when she arrives in the past. She continues to serve as a catalyst for conflict even after giving up her murderous vendetta.
• Composite Character: Lucifer has two notable children from the comics, Caliban and Takehiko. Rory also takes cues from Elaine Belloc, Michael's Nephilim daughter who became a supporting character in her demonic uncle's adventures.
• Deceased Parents Are the Best: While she initially despises Lucifer she also adores Chloe, who raised her and was always there for her. While Chloe isn't quite dead from her perspective, especially since death means very little to her what with being an angel who can freely go to and from the afterlife, Rory did depart while she was on her deathbed at the end of her life.
• Disappeared Dad: Her whole character motivation is the fact that Lucifer completely disappeared out of her and Chloe's life without explanation and her rage at him for doing that, not even returning when Chloe's on her deathbed. Finding out why is the main story arc of season 6.
• Disappears into Light: After she has dealt with her issues and has learned and accepted why Lucifer must leave, she is sent back to the future in a swirl of light.
• Friendly Rivalry: Apparently has one in the future with her cousin Charlie. Presumably because they're the only two half-angels in the world. She intends to use his infantile thumb-sucking as ammunition against him.
• The Gadfly: The first time she runs into Maze, Eve and Amenadiel she spends some time messing with their heads to make the former two think their wedding won't happen and pretending that she doesn't know Amenadiel at all.
• Game Face: She has a devil face much like her father.
• Good Wings, Evil Wings: Her angel wings are blood-red and barbed with massive knives, making her wings effective Natural Weapons against virtually anyone (including angels). When Chloe sees them, she worries that this is reflective of a bad upbringing (since an angel's appearance and powers are the result of self-actualization), but Rory assures her that that wasn't the case.
• Have We Met Yet?: Has a hard time remembering that she's traveled back in time to before she was born and interacts with her family as if they already knew who she was despite the human members being a good 40 to 50 years younger than she remembers.
• Immortality Begins at Twenty: Implied to be the case for why she is Older Than They Look.
• Kid from the Future: She's Lucifer and Chloe's daughter who traveled back in time to confront her father.
• Like Parent, Like Child: Rory is a dark-haired girl who loves trolling people, had a friendly rivalry with Charlie that resembles the one Lucifer had with Amenadiel, is combative, rebellious and blame her father for abandoned her. Both Linda and Amenadiel quickly noticed how much alike Rory and Lucifer are. Rory is even a fan of Bones like Lucifer (though she thinks the spin-off is better).
• Like Parent, Unlike Child: While Rory is like her father in a lot of ways (as listed in Like Father, Like Son), while Lucifer Cannot Tell a Lie, Rory is shockingly talented at it. Unlike her Uncle Michael (who uses it to hurt people), she is only ever seen to doing it For the Lulz, psyching out Amenadiel, Maze and Eve when they first meet.
• Locked Out of the Loop: She goes her entire life not knowing why Lucifer left her and her mother or why Chloe would never tell her why. Presumably their friends were sworn to secrecy as well. She had to be kept in the dark to fulfill the Stable Time Loop, until she actually lived through it, and only then was she allowed to know.
• Meaningful Name: Aurora means brilliant, bright, and radiant, which she definitely is beneath all her anger, and it also refers to both the northern lights (as well as the less remembered Southern Lights) and the first light of the dawn, which ties back to her father the Lightbringer.
• Nephilim: The daughter of an angel and a human.
• "Not So Different" Remark: Lying aside, and though for a long time neither are willing to admit it but in the end Rory truly is her father's daughter, as noted by both Linda and Amenadiel. Namely the whole "Resting mean face. Loves blaming others. Combative, rebellious, claims I abandoned her.", the mirrored but otherwise identical way they simultaneously crossed their legs and scoff when Linda pointed this out and the way how they exit Linda's office (which Linda also lampshaded).
• Older Than They Look: Looks, acts and for a while is assumed to be in her early 20s yet is stated to be quite a bit older, likely as a result of Immortality Begins at Twenty. As shown in "Partners 'Til the End", she still appears as a youngish 20-year-old when Chloe is on her deathbed, likely indicating that she is at least twice her apparent age. To be more precise and accurate, Rory's appearance is that of a young, short and petite woman in her early 20s, however, as a half celestial, she stopped aging after she reached adulthood. Therefore she will always look like she is in her early 20s even though she's almost 40 by the time of her mother's death.
• Practically Different Generations: Though Rory's comments imply that they are close she and Trixie do have a 14 year age difference.
• Razor Wings: Her wings have sharp metallic tips that she can use to cut or skewer things. She is shown to be so precise with them, she is able to pin a fly to a wall.
• Rebellious Princess: As the daughter of Lucifer she could very easily be called the "Princess of Hell" and fittingly as the daughter of Lucifer is quite rebellious.
• Semi-Divine: She is half-human half-angel, and inherits both her father's powers and immortality, and her mother's mortal weakness.
• Significant Wardrobe Shift: When Rory first shows up she's got a pretty dark and severe emo-goth-punk vibe to her style. As the season progresses and her anger at Lucifer fades her style becomes somewhat softer and her color palette becomes much lighter.
• Something Only They Would Say: She unintentionally proves her identity to Chloe when she gives her name and that it's short for "aurora" — Chloe had always planned to give that name to her second daughter if she ever had one.
• Stable Time Loop: She unintentionally travels back in time to confront Lucifer for leaving her and Chloe and in so doing creates the conditions that require him to leave.
• Straight Gay: Is implied to be a lesbian but she is not open about it, although Maze seemed to have picked up on it.
• Time Travel: Manifested the ability to travel backwards, but she's not sure how she did it and can't work out how to travel forward and return to where she left.
• Troll: Rory trolls Maze, Eve, Amenadiel, and later Linda. Apparently, she learned this from Maze.
• Tsundere: She's at first extremely angry, rude, and bitter, especially to Lucifer, but when she gets to know people she shows her caring side.
• Unskilled, but Strong: It seems Rory mostly relies on her superhuman strength and Razor Wings but completely lacks the combat skill of her parents.
• Walking Spoiler: A MASSIVE one, as literally everything about her is a spoiler, hence why her folder is unmarked as it would otherwise be completely blanked out, in fact, she's so much of a spoiler that the official press release describing her character was a complete and total lie.
• Womanchild: Though it's indicated that she is actually in her 40s or 50s she not only looks like she's in her early 20s she acts like it as well and a somewhat immature 20 something year old at that. Yet another way she takes after her father.

LAPD

Det. Chloe Decker

Detective Chloe Jane Decker

"It’s better to move forward than stay stuck in the past."

Species: Human

Played By: Lauren German

First appearance: "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.

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• Action Girl: 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.
• Action Mom: Trixie's and Rory's mother who works as a police detective.
• Affectionate Nickname:
  • 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" (before the two have their second Big Damn Kiss) and "Who's da New King of Hell?" (precedes Lucifer giving her a Last Kiss 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.
• Alternate Self: Has one in an alternate universe created by God, where her father never died and she became an actress.
• Amicable Exes: She and Dan become this eventually, most notably after they finally decide to go ahead with their divorce.
• Anguished Declaration of Love: 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.
• All the Other Reindeer: 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 Dirty Cop in spite of his being extremely well-regarded by everyone else. It was dropped in later seasons.
• Anti-Magic: 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.
• Arbitrary Skepticism: 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 Super-Strength. 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 Game Face up close and personal at last.
• Back from the Dead: In "A Chance at a Happy Ending", she is stabbed to death by Michael, but resurrected when Lucifer returns her soul to Earth.
• Better as Friends: Chloe and Dan get along a lot better after they finalize their divorce.
• Betty and Veronica: 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.
• Brief Accent Imitation: Imitates Lucifer's RP accent in "Vegas With Some Radish" ("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!").
• Broken Pedestal: 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.
• Brooding Boy, Gentle Girl: 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. 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.
• Can't Hold Her Liquor: In contrast to Lucifer's constant partying, Chloe needs to be egged into drinking. In "Lady Parts", she quickly spills into In Vino Veritas. 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".
• The Chosen One: 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.
• Clingy Jealous Girl: 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.
• Cloudcuckoolander's Minder: Is this for Lucifer.
• Covert Pervert:
  • In "Til Death Do Us Part", Chloe seems to be enjoying the sight of Lucifer and Pierce kissing.
  • Despite ordering him to 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".
• Cowboy Cop:
  • 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.
• Daddy's Girl: 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.
• Defrosting Ice Queen: 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 What the Hell, Hero? from Dan, when her drive to prove Malcolm guilty endangered her and might have cost to Malcolm's grieving family.
• Disappeared Dad: 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 (as the man imprisoned for the crime turns out to be completely innocent).
• Divine Date: She eventually hooks up with Lucifer and gives birth to his daughter.
• Empowered Badass Normal: 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.
• Expository Hairstyle Change: The season 5 reveal trailer shows that Chloe cuts her hair and dyes it brown. Probably a way to cope with Lucifer leaving her.
• Fair Cop: She's a pretty cop, and she used to be an actress.
• Fantastic Racism: 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 Eats Babies 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.
• Fire-Forged Friends: 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.
• Flat-Earth Atheist: 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 prone to violence against witnesses, supernatural being with dark hair, while she's a short, no-nonsense, fairly stoic, By-the-Book Cop and a normal human with blond hair. On a more subtle difference, she's far more judgy, a Consummate Liar, 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, Will Not Tell a Lie, is hesitant to kill even the most vile persons he encounters, has No Social Skills outside of sex and seduction, and loathes his father.
• Forgotten First Meeting: "City of Angels?" reveals that she actually met Amenadiel five years ago, but neither recall this meeting when they meet again in "Wingman".
• For Want Of A Nail: 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.
• Friendless Background: 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.
• "Friends" Rent Control: 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.
• Generation Xerox:
  • Her father was a police officer in Los Angeles and her mother was a known actress.
  • 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".
• Glamorous Single Mother:
  • 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 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.
• Good Parents: She is a good mother to Trixie and Rory.
• Heroic BSoD: 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 that she was a miracle to be put in Lucifer's path.
• Homeschooled Kids: 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.
• Idiot Ball: Grabs this in "Who Da New King of Hell?" when she decides to 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 Anguished Declaration of Love 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 Skewed Priorities in a crisis, making it look like a poorly-implemented way to show that Chloe has finally accepted Lucifer's nature, devil form and all.
• Innocently Insensitive: When Chloe asks Lucifer if he enjoyed torturing souls in Hell.
• Interspecies Romance: With Lucifer, eventually.
• Jerkass Realization: She's hell-bent on proving Malcolm's guilt, but after a 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 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).
• Kick the Morality Pet: Inverted, as she's Lucifer's Morality Pet, but is the one doing the kicking when she 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.
• Like Brother and Sister: She becomes this with Ella.
• Locked Out of the Loop:
  • 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, she sees his Devil Face full on.
  • She was unaware that she was a miracle from God for Lucifer, until season 5.
• Mama Bear:
  • When 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 Kid from the Future, Rory is kidnapped, she goes full-on Pregnant Badass to go into a Battle Couple with Lucifer to save their daughter.
• Manipulative Bitch: 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. 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.
• Morality Chain:
  • For Pierce, potentially. 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.
• Morality Pet: 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.
• Moral Myopia: Initially in season 4. She thinks the right thing to do is trying to send someone - a friend she's had for years, no less! - to Hell. She gets better.
• Nay-Theist:
  • 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.
• Never My Fault: 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 usual stance on accepting personal responsibility.
• Not So Above It All:
  • 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.
• No-Sell: 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 Chick Magnet 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.
• Odd Couple: 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.
• Odd Friendship: 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.
• Old Shame: In-universe, the Hot Tub High School movie she did while she was a rising actress, which Lucifer claims rivals Phoebe Cates's in Fast Times at Ridgemont High. Chloe says she became a police officer so that no one will recognize her because of that.
• Once Done, Never Forgotten: 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 B-Movie actress doesn't help matters.
• One True Love: 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, 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 Anguished Declaration of Love.
• Please, Don't Leave Me: 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.
• Properly Paranoid: She is the only LAPD cop who suspects that Malcolm Graham is not a martyr, but a Dirty Cop who has been fooling everyone. Not only is she right, her estranged husband has been working all this time to make her crazy in front of everyone else.
• Relationship Upgrade: What Chloe and Lucifer finally undergo in "Detective Amenadiel".
• Shooting Superman: Justified. She shoots at 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.
• Skewed Priorities: As an unfortunate side-effect of carrying the Idiot Ball around during the fourth season finale, she decides to 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.
• Sleeping with the Boss: She ends up dating lieutenant Marcus Pierce in Season 3.
• Slut-Shaming: Has an unfortunate habit of doing this, especially to Lucifer.
• Star-Crossed Lovers: With Lucifer at the end of season 4.
• Together in Death: In a way. In the Grand Finale, she dies after a long life and enters Heaven, but decides to descend to Hell and assist Lucifer helping damned souls to salvation.
• Tomato in the Mirror: 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 pulls the rug out from under him.
• Unwitting Muggle Friend: She's this for Lucifer, having no idea he's really the Devil. Until the Season 3 finale.
• Unwitting Pawn:
  • God is clearly up to something with her, but Chloe has no idea she's special in any way.
  • Cain is also manipulating her into a relationship with him, hoping that her feelings can cure him of his curse.
  • 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.
• Violently Protective Girlfriend: In season 5, she's furious with Dan when he shoots Lucifer.
• Vitriolic Best Buds: With Lucifer and Maze.
• Wacky Parent, Serious Child: The Serious Child to Penelope Decker's Wacky Parent.
• What the Hell, Hero?: 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.

Det. Dan Espinoza

Detective Daniel "Dan" Espinoza

"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: Kevin Alejandro

First appearance: "Pilot" (1x01)

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

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• Action Dad: As involved in action as his ex-wife.
• Alternate Self: Has one in 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.
• Amicable Exes: 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.
• The Atoner: 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.
• Better as Friends: 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.
• Butt-Monkey: After spending Season 1 as a mildly sinister Jerkass, he begins transforming into this in Season 2 since 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 target for the Jerkass-ier characters like Lucifer and Pierce to fling witty insults at. And people keep stealing his pudding!
  • By season 5B his death is orchestrated by Michael. What is worse, Amenadiel reveals he is in Hell.
• By-the-Book Cop: If a little eager to close cases, Dan does worry more about doing his job by the laws than Chloe or Lucifer do.
• Died in Your Arms Tonight: 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.
• Dirty Cop:
  • Revealed to be one in "Et Tu, Doctor?". He was the one who shot Malcolm. Subverted when it's revealed that he only did that to protect Chloe from Malcolm, who was the real Dirty Cop.
  • 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.
• Embarrassing Nickname: 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. 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.
• Everyone Has Standards: Despite hating Lucifer at the time he still tries to protect him from Malcolm Graham.
• Fair Cop: Dan is a very attractive cop, to say the least.
• Fire-Forged Friends: Dan and Lucifer eventually become friends (albeit of the vitriolic variety) during Season 2, after spending the first season despising each other.
• Heaven Seeker: 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.
• Heroic BSoD: At the end of Season 3, 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 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 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 God Is Flawed, wondering what that means for the universe and the rest of humanity. However in Season 5B he's finally able to move through it 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.
• Heroic Willpower: Azrael's blade is an Artifact of Doom 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.
• Hidden Depths:
  • 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 resist the influence of 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 the two visit a bathhouse.
• I Did What I Had to Do: His reason for 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 for shooting Lucifer, trying to kill him on Michael's instructions.
• In-Series Nickname: 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 "Detective Douche").
• In the Back: 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.
• Jacob Marley Apparel: After Rory brings his spirit back to Earth he gets stuck as a ghost wearing the clothes he died in.
• Jerkass:
  • Is initially one to Chloe at every turn, with a side of Deadpan Snarker. 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".
• Jerk with a Heart of Gold: 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.
• Killed Off for Real: 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.
• Like Brother and Sister: In "Is This Really How It's Going To End?" he addresses Ella as "Mi hermanita" while trying to set her up with an old friend of his.
• Locked Out of the Loop: Has no idea that Lucifer is really the Devil. At least until Season 5, courtesy of Michael causing Dan to accidentally see Luci's Devil face, at which point Dan has a Heroic BSoD.
• The Mourning After: 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.
• Mr. Fanservice: Downplayed but he has a few shirtless scenes in the series.
• No Good Deed Goes Unpunished: In Season 5B he volunteers to help Chloe with a particularly difficult case, this ends up with him being kidnapped, tortured and shot, later dying on Chloe's arms.
• Odd Friendship:
  • 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 Token Evil Teammate 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. 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.
• Papa Wolf: 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.
• Pay Evil unto Evil: 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. 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.
• Pet the Dog: As mentioned above, goes to Chloe to help her and genuinely seems to still care about her.
• Redemption Demotion: 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.
• Roaring Rampage of Revenge: As he states in "A Devil of My Word", he will not rest until he catches the person who murdered the woman he loves.
• Sex for Solace: He makes out with Ella in "Devil Is As Devil Does" amid his grief over Charlotte's death.
• Shipper on Deck: 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.
• Together in Death: 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.
• Token Evil Teammate: Downplayed since that role mainly goes to Maze, but Dan is a Dirty Cop 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.
• Took a Level in Jerkass: He relapses back to his Season 1 douche-y self after Charlotte's death, blaming Lucifer for everything and even (albeit accidentally) almost getting him killed in a reckless attempt to make Lucifer face justice for assaulting a previous suspect. Gets Lampshaded by Lucifer in 'Devil Is As Devil Does'.
  Lucifer: (introducing him to Eve) And that's Dan. He's a douche again.
• Took a Level in Kindness: He mellows out a lot in Season 2, and even becomes friends (somewhat) with Lucifer. After he Took a Level in Jerkass in Season 4 he returns to this characterization in Season 5, though he does have a Freak Out after learning Lucifer really is the Devil.
• Trademark Favorite Food: Pudding. Even seeing a man boiled alive in a big vat of it can't put him off the stuff for very long.
• Unwitting Muggle Friend: He's this for Lucifer, having no idea he's really the Devil. At least until Season 5, courtesy of Michael.
• Vitriolic Best Buds: While hating each other back in Season 1 and nearly always arguing, Dan and Lucifer are genuinely friends.
• Wrong Genre Savvy: 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.

Ella Lopez

Ella Lopez

"I mean, you know Ella, there's just something about her. She's so positive, she makes you feel like..."

Species: Human

Played By: Aimee Garcia

First appearance: "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.

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• Absent-Minded Professor: 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.
• All Girls Want Bad Boys: 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. Then it turns out Pete is a sociopathic Serial Killer.
• All-Loving Hero: 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, which is a hint that he is not a good guy at all.
• Alternate Self: Has one in 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, 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 and still has a friendship with Lucifer.
• Ambiguously Bi: 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 "Shut Up" Kiss to calm her down, she clearly enjoyed it.
• Big Brother Worship: 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.
• Break the Cutie:
  • 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.
  • In "Spoiler Alert", Pete tells her that she has a darkness inside herself, which he can tell when they first met.
• Broken Pedestal:
  • 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!
• Bunny-Ears Lawyer: She's quirky and excitable, but she's definitely good at her job.
• Can't Hold Her Liquor: 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.
• Crisis of Faith: 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.
• Cuddle Bug: She loves a good hug, and will hug every person she meets.
• Dark and Troubled Past: 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 Heel–Face Turn. Then again, she grew up in Detroit.
• Dark Is Not Evil: Her opinion on the devil, in spite of her Christian faith, which Lucifer appreciates.
• Easily Forgiven: In Season 5, she was angry at Lucifer for leaving without saying goodbye, nor answering her texts, due to returning to Hell. When he^note actually Michael 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.
• "Eureka!" Moment: 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. But she lost all respect and admiration for him when she finds out he shot Charlotte Richards.
• Flat-Earth Atheist: 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.
• Fun T-Shirt:
  • 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.
• Genki Girl: Very upbeat and energetic, for someone whose job is to analyze crime scenes. When she first met Lucifer, she gave him a hug.
• Godiva Hair: When she and Lucifer go undercover in a nudist club in Season 4, her long hair and some Scenery Censor are the only things that keep the episode from getting slapped with a higher rating.
• The Heart: 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.
• Hero Worship: She really idolizes Marcus Pierce, in spite of his personality. The revelation that her hero is actually LA's most feared crime boss causes her to lose her faith in God.
• Hidden Depths: 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 though more likely this had to do with having an invisible-to-others angel/ghost for a friend.
• I Choose to Stay: In "Boo Normal", she nearly resigns from the LAPD to move back to Detroit, but Ray-Ray and Lucifer convince her not to.
• Iconic Sequel Character: Debuts in the second season and quickly became a core member of the cast.
• Like Brother and Sister:
  • 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 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.
• Locked Out of the Loop: 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.
  • 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.
• Massive Numbered Siblings: Ella, plus her four brothers.
• Ms. Exposition: Helps provide background on a case thanks to any evidence that's brought to her.
• Near-Death Experience: She almost died in a car crash as a kid. 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.
• Nerd Glasses: 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.
• Nice Girl: 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.
• No Sense of Personal Space: A minor example, but her first meetings with Lucifer, Maze, and Amenadiel have her giving them big hugs.
• Noodle Incident:
  • 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".
• O.O.C. Is Serious Business: After Pierce scolds her in "The Sin Bin", she turns withdrawn and quiet. Charlotte quickly takes note of this and, upon learning the reason, chews out Pierce hard enough for him to apologize to Ella.
• Pals with Jesus: Her childhood best friend was Azrael, the Angel of Death. Not to mention her friendship with Lucifer.
• The Pollyanna: 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.
• Reformed Criminal: 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.
• Sex for Solace: 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).
• She Cleans Up Nicely: In Vegas, even Lucifer is wowed by how Ella wears a stunningly hot dress showing off her legs.
• Shipper on Deck: 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.
• Token Religious Teammate: 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. 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.
• Unwitting Muggle Friend: 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.

Lt. Marcus Pierce (Spoilers Unmarked!)

Cain / Lieutenant Marcus Pierce

"You made me realize that life is worth living, and I will do anything to stay alive."

Species: Human

Played By: Tom Welling

First appearance: "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.

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• 0% Approval Rating: 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 impressively large, shapely arms.
• Adaptational Attractiveness: In The Sandman (1989) (which properly introduced Lucifer to the DC universe), Cain was thin, reedy, and had a mass of Wild Hair. This version of him's a Hunk. Furthermore, his mark is on his arm this time, rather than his forehead.
• Adaptation Personality Change: 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 Personifications of the idea of Cain and Abel, and not the real beings. This version of him is a stern, cold Death Seeker. "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.
• Adaptational Superpower Change: In the comics, Cain's curse made it so that anyone who harmed him would be given Laser-Guided Karma 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 Complete Immortality.
• Adaptational Villainy: In the comics, Cain was a Punch-Clock Villain 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 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 faked to put on the appearance of a normal guy. He is eventually revealed to be the real Sinnerman — a Serial Killer 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.
• Alternate Universe Reed Richards Is Awesome: His alternate self is none other than Superman, who is as different from him as they come.
• Ambiguously Evil: For the first part of Season 3. He's a right jerkass most of the time, but does show some softer moments. Then The Reveal 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. Word of God implies he's really just playing Gambit Roulette, trying to find someone who can kill him and not being sure if either Lucifer or Chloe fit the bill.
• And I Must Scream: Cain is sent to Hell, as Lucifer points out that him killing Charlotte Richards instead of Amenadiel is an action he deeply regrets inside.
• Arc Villain: For Season 3. Though he's a Villainy-Free Villain, he's the primary source of Lucifer's antagonism in the season by coming between him and Chloe. He's also The Man Behind the Man to The Sinnerman, the season's Disc-One Final Boss; 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.
• Be Careful What You Wish For: 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.
• Becoming the Mask: 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.
• Believing Their Own Lies: He claims he won't go to hell because he 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.
• Betty and Veronica: Downplayed. 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 ...
  • Betty and Veronica Switch: The Reveal that he is the Sinnerman and 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.
• Broken Pedestal: Becomes this to Ella, after she learns that he murdered Charlotte.
• Cain: Marcus Pierce is actually Cain, the biblical first murderer.
• Cain and Abel: Played with. While he and Abel are the Trope Namers, 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.
• Canon Character All Along: "Marcus Pierce" is an alias — his real name is Cain.
• Cold Ham: He's stoic and poker-faced to an impressive fault, even with ridiculous things coming out of his mouth at times.
• The Comically Serious: Where most of his humour comes from.
• Deadpan Snarker: 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.
• Death Seeker: He's really had his fill of the whole "Walking the Earth" 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...
• Die Laughing: After Lucifer gives Cain a well-deserved "The Reason You Suck" Speech, Cain just laughs in his face before finally dying. It's creepy as heck.
• Dirty Cop: 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.
• Dying Curse: 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 "The Reason You Suck" Speech, is just as bad as him.
• Fair Cop: 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.
• Freudian Excuse: 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 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.
• Healing Factor:
  • 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."
• The Hedonist: 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.
• Heel–Face Door-Slam: 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 he certainly has a point, it comes off in a worse light after the revelation that he is secretly the Sinnerman.
• Immortality Hurts: 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.
• In Love with the Mark: 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.
• I Regret Nothing: 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 Taking the Bullet. This one action is the only thing he really regrets, which means that after dying, he would be sent to Hell.
• Jerkass:
  • His Establishing Character Moment 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.
• Jerkass Has a Point: On the other hand, he does a good job of pegging all of them accurately. He's just unpleasant about it.
• Jerk with a Heart of Gold: 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 Jerk with a Heart of Jerk.
• Kick the Morality Pet: 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.
• Killed Off for Real: In the season 3 finale, he is finally killed by Lucifer.
• Large and in Charge: 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.
• The Man Behind the Man: He's the one behind the Sinnerman.
• Mark of Shame: His birthmark on his arm, a partly-complete circle, is his Mark of Cain. He covers it up with a faux-military tattoo.
• Meaningful Name: One of the suspected etymologies for the name "Marcus" comes from the Etruscan word "mar", meaning "to harvest". Cain was the first farmer.
• Metaphorically True: The Exact Words type. Pierce claims that the Sinnerman killed his brother. Since he's the true Sinnerman and the The Man Behind the Man to the one the LAPD captured, he's technically correct — the Sinnerman did kill his brother.
• Mr. Fanservice: Not as much as Lucifer, but he does have his moments where it's highlighted how hunky he is.
• Name of Cain: Ur-Example, Trope Maker and Trope Codifier all in one.
• Not So Stoic: 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.
• One Degree of Separation: 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.
• Rasputinian Death: 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 grows back.
• The Reveal: At the end of "The Sin Bin" we find out who and what he really is: Cain.
• Seen It All: 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.
• Sitcom Arch-Nemesis: 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.
• The Sociopath: 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 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.
• The Stoic: Generally always calm and reserved. Because after living for thousands of years and having Seen It All, little surprises him or gets under his skin.
• Tattoo Conceals Scars: 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.
• Tragic Villain: 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.
• Time Abyss: 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.
• Villainous BSoD: 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 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.
• Villainy-Free Villain: 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.
• Walking Spoiler: 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.
• Who Wants to Live Forever?: 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.
• Worth Living For: 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.

Det. Malcolm Graham

Detective Malcolm Graham

"Do you know what happens when you die? Well, if you lived a life like I did, you go to Hell."

Species: Human

Played By: Kevin Rankin

First appearance: "Wingman" (1x07)

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

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• And I Must Scream: Went to Hell after he died for being a Dirty Cop, 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.
• An Offer You Can't Refuse: Lucifer offers Malcolm one of his special coins so that he can't go back to Hell thanks to Amenadiel's threats.
• Anything but That!: 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.
• Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking: When he tells Dan about his time in Hell. Also counts as Skewed Priorities:

  Malcolm: They starved me. No food. No other people. No nothing. No TV!

• Ax-Crazy: After joining "Team Lucifer" as he puts it, he develops into a serial killer who targets Satanists.
• Back from the Dead: Technically he died, and was in Hell for a full 30 seconds before Amenadiel pulled him out.
• Big Eater: 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.
• Bitch in Sheep's Clothing: 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.
• Came Back Wrong: 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.
• Cop Killer: 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?"
• Dirty Cop: What Chloe suspected of him. And she was absolutely right.
• Domestic Abuse: 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.
• The Dragon: For Amenadiel in his plan to kill Lucifer.
• Dragon Ascendant: Becomes the final bad guy after Amenadiel decides to turn himself around.
• Even Evil Has Loved Ones: 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...
• Evil Redhead: An Ax-Crazy Dirty Cop with the red hair and Porn Stache to match.
• Fatal Flaw: Gluttony. Malcolm self-describes as someone with a "hunger for life". It's not just the food, it's about 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.
• Faux Affably Evil: 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.
• Final Boss: Serves as this for the first season after Amenadiel's Heel–Face Turn.
• Giggling Villain: Always bursts into awkward laugh fits, to show how deranged he is.
• Go Mad from the Revelation: He was Dragged Off to Hell in that brief 30-second pause between dying and getting dragged back up to the land of the living. He really didn't like it.
• Killed Off for Real: At the end of Season 1, after he 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.
• Killer Cop: Reveals in "#Team Lucifer" that all the killings of the Satanists was his doing. Since he's always been a Dirty Cop, who knows how many other people he's killed as part of his shady business...
• Laughing Mad: When confronted with his killings, devolves into this toward Lucifer.
• No-Sell: He is completely unfazed by Lucifer's Game Face. He justifies it by noting he has literally been to Hell and back.
• No Sense of Personal Space: 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.
• Porn Stache: And when it's combined with his trademark wink, it manages to disturb even Lucifer.
  Lucifer: It's the wink with the porn 'stache that's sending the wrong message.
• Sanity Slippage: While he was always bad to the bone, his trip in Hell really unscrewed the last of his mental stability.
• Serial Killer: Becomes one after getting the Pentecostal Coin from Lucifer, where he targets Satanists.
• Suspicious Spending: After awakening from his coma, he spent almost all of his and his wife's money on many expensive technology.
• Took a Level in Jerkass: 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.
• Ungrateful Bastard: 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 stab Amenadiel, who is the reason he's still living in the first place.
• Walking Spoiler: His revival at the hands of Amenadiel and eventual descent into madness is a twist that influences the entire last half of the first season.
• Wild Card: Becomes this after getting the Pentecostal Coin, randomly killing and acting in a manic way.
• Would Hit a Girl: He outright tells Dan he was gonna kill Chloe for discovering his shady business at Palmetto, and he killed Rose Davis, a Satanist, as part of his murder spree. He also threatens to kill Trixie, a young girl.
• Would Hurt a Child: Not only did he kill teenagers For the Evulz, he also threatens Chloe that if she won't give him his money, he will kill Trixie.
• You're Insane!: Lucifer, out of all people, states it verbatim when Malcolm tells him he killed the Satanists and framed Jacob Williams to impress him.

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Dr. Linda Martin

Dr. Linda Martin

"Sometimes we need to lose something to understand its value."

Species: Human

Played By: Rachael Harris

First appearance: "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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• Absurdly Elderly Mother: Gives birth to baby Charlie in her forties. Then again, the baby's father is an angel, so...^note Plus Rachael Harris really did get pregnant at around 50, so they wrote her pregnancy into the show.
• All Therapists Are Muggles: 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 Freak Out, but comes to accept that Lucifer and Maze are still the people she knows them as and resumes working with them as their Secret-Keeper.
• Alternate Self: Has one in 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.
• Amicable Exes:
  • 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 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.
• Be Careful What You Wish For: She wants Lucifer to tell her the truth. She gets it, and she doesn't take it well.
• But I Can't Be Pregnant!: 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.
• Constantly Curious: By the episode "Trip to Stabby Town", 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.
• Dark and Troubled Past: 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.
• Deadpan Snarker: 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".
• Go Mad from the Revelation: She undergoes instant catatonia upon seeing Lucifer's devil face for the first time and becomes a Talkative Loon 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.
• Heroic BSoD: Linda tries to get Lucifer abandon his "metaphors" in the episode "Monster" and pleads for his full honesty. Upon seeing Lucifer's true face, she completely freezes up, unable to manage anything more than a quivering lip and a Thousand-Yard Stare.
• Heroic Willpower: 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.
• Hot Librarian: The good doctor dresses professionally, has her hair up, and wears glasses...at least until it's cuddle time with Lucifer.
• Interspecies Friendship: Linda, a human therapist, with a demon, Maze, for a best friend.
• Intimate Psychotherapy: 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.
• Making Love in All the Wrong Places: 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.
• Mama Bear: While she would do anything for Charlie, 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.
• Morality Pet: 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 Linda and Amanediel's secret relationship and Maze is clearly upset with her, she shows she still cares about Linda when Cain threatens to kill her to get to Maze.
• My Greatest Failure: Leaving her daughter right after she gave birth to her.
• Nerves of Steel: While seeing Lucifer's devil face terrified her at first, Maze is impressed with how Linda is taking it since most people usually go insane afterwards. Even though she's clearly shocked and becomes a Talkative Loon 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.
• Nice Girl: 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.
• Not That Kind of Doctor:
  • 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.
• Odd Friendship: In spite of their vastly contrasting personalities, she and Maze become close friends. This continues even after she finds out that Maze is a demon.
• Only Sane Woman: 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.
• Pals with Jesus: 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.
• Parental Abandonment: 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.
• Seen It All: By Season 6, Linda is only a bit surprised when she met Lucifer and Chloe's daughter who time-traveled from the future, and even then she quickly recovered.
• Shipper on Deck: Implied to be one for Lucifer and Chloe as of Season 2. 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, when she learns Chloe and Lucifer finally had sex in “Our Mojo,” she’s elated and is celebratory over the news.
• Strong Family Resemblance: Linda's daughter is a carbon copy of her, including haircut and glasses.
• Surprise Pregnancy: She is visibly surprised upon finding out that she is pregnant, because the father is Amenadiel, an angel.
• Teen Pregnancy: Linda had a baby daughter when she was 17. It was unplanned and the identity of the father is unknown.
• Thousand-Yard Stare: Gets a big one upon seeing Lucifer's true face. When he looks back upon leaving her office, she hasn't moved an inch.
• Unwitting Muggle Friend: She's this for Lucifer, having no idea he's really the Devil until the episode "Monster", where he shows her his true face.
• What the Hell, Hero?: 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.
• Wrong Genre Savvy: A mild example, but 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 Big, Screwed-Up Family and the metaphysics are far less important than their soap opera-ish shenanigans, this comes across as hilariously misplaced.

Trixie Espinoza

Beatrice "Trixie" Espinoza

"Don't you always say that when somebody's going through something, that's when they need their friends most?"

Species: Human

Played By: Scarlett Estevez

First appearance: "Pilot" (1x01)

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

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• Advertised Extra: 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.
• Affectionate Nickname: Her parents are fond of calling her "Monkey". Her future sister Rory called her "T".
• Children Are Innocent:
  • 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 Old Shame, but it turns out that 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 Maze's true face in "Monster", thinking that it's part of an elaborate costume.
• Commuting on a Bus: 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.
• Cool Big Sis: Rory seem to worship Trixie, calling her T.
• Cuddle Bug: Hugs both Lucifer (to his discomfort) and Amenadiel.
• Easily Forgiven: She forgave Maze for calling her a "stupid little brat". She couldn't stay mad at her.
• From the Mouths of Babes: She has quite a mouth.
• Girls Love Chocolate: 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 Rory she's still fond of it several decades in the future as she correctly guessed where Trixie hid her chocolate.
• Hero Worship: She likes Lucifer at first sight and is gleeful when he and her mother grow closer.
• Hollywood Genetics: 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 Kevin Alejandro in the actual series.
• Intergenerational Friendship: Trixie is a child. Maze is a thousands-years old demon. May apply to Lucifer too, up to a point.
• Locked Out of the Loop: 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.
• Meaningful Name: Beatrice is the saintly woman from The Divine Comedy who gives her arrogant lover the power to go through Hell and ascend to God's unimaginable presence.
• Morality Pet: Maze likes her and cares for her. Let that sink in.
  • She's also one for her father, Dan. He quit being a Corrupt Cop and started trying his best to straighten out his life for her sake.
• Odd Friendship: With Lucifer, who 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.
• Only Known by Their Nickname: As she notes in the first episode, everyone generally calls her Trixie, rather than Beatrice.
• Oracular Urchin: She seems strongly drawn to the celestials and as Chloe's daughter is a miracle child one generation removed. She also says very insightful things. 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.
• Practically Different Generations: Though Rory's comments imply that the two are close, the fact remains that the two have a 14 year age difference.
• Put on a Bus: 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.
• Shipper on Deck:
  • She is the first person to ship Chloe with Lucifer. She even interprets her (accidentally) shooting him in "Manly Whatnots" as a Slap-Slap-Kiss.
  • 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.
• Soap Opera Rapid Aging Syndrome: 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.
• Stepford Smiler: 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.
• Trademark Favorite Food: She loves chocolate cake.

Charlotte Richards

Charlotte Richards

"There's no hope for me, Amenadiel, I can't change. I'm going to Hell."

Species: Human

Played By: Tricia Helfer

First appearance: "Everything's Coming Up Lucifer" (2x01, body), "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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• Alternate Self: Has one in 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.
• Ambiguously Bi: 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.
• Amoral Attorney: 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.
• And I Must Scream: 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.
• The Atoner: 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.
• Back for the Finale: She makes one last cameo in the series finale having reunited with Dan who finally made it to Heaven.
• Back from the Dead: She had been murdered shortly before Lucifer's mother started using her body as a vessel. This is her second chance in life.
• Beneath the Mask: 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 Amoral Attorney, 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.
• Birds of a Feather: A platonic example. Both she and Amenadiel were 0 have been damned for their crimes (Amenadiel has fallen, and Charlotte ended up in Hell), who both undergo a Heel–Face Turn, 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, and she sacrifices herself for him.
• Break the Haughty: 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 made her realize that acting as an arrogant Amoral Attorney filled her with deep regret, so to better herself and right her wrongs, she gives up her job as a defense attorney and joins the District Attorney's office.
• Came Back Wrong: Inverted. Unlike Malcolm, she became a better person after being resurrected.
• Defector from Decadence: 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.
• Died in Your Arms Tonight: She dies in Amenadiel's arms, after Taking the Bullet for him.
• Forced to Watch: 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.
• Heaven Seeker: 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.
• Heel Realization: After spending an undetermined amount of time in Hell, she realizes that she's been a horrible person in life and wants to change. 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.
• Killed Off for Real: Dies after taking a bullet for Amenadiel.
• Mirror Character: 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. Both are shot to death, but Charlotte's genuine wish to be a good human and Taking the Bullet for an angel (Amenadiel) redeems herself and she is brought to heaven, while Malcolm, who became Ax-Crazy, shot an angel (Lucifer) and is sent back to hell.
• My Greatest Second Chance: 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.
• One True Love: To Dan. 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.
• Redemption Equals Death: Sort of. 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.
• Screw the Rules, I Have Connections!: 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.
• Second Love: 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.
• Surprisingly Realistic Outcome: 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.
• Taking the Bullet: For Amenadiel. This one true selfless act costs her life, but Amenadiel flies her to Heaven for this.
• Together in Death: With Dan once he makes it to Heaven.

Eve

Eve

"I've always been a bit of a rule breaker."

Species: Human

Played By: Inbar Lavi

First appearance: "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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• Action Girl: While starting out as an Action Survivor, she has graduated into this in season 5.
• Adaptational Dumbass: In The Sandman, Eve was a wise, experienced storyteller who knew plenty about human nature (and non-human nature). In the show, she's naive to the point of disaster.
• Arc Villain: The (unwitting) main antagonist for Lucifer's storyline in Season 4.
• Arranged Marriage: How she describes her relationship with Adam. Despite being literally made for him, nothing she ever did pleased him. While they got along fine (enough to literally start a race), there really wasn't a spark in their marriage.
• The Atoner: In "Who's da New King of Hell?", after finding out just how screwed up her plan to get Lucifer back to Hell was, leading to baby Charlie being kidnapped to be groomed as the new King, she immediately signs up to join the mission to rescue him.
• Back from the Dead: Eve died many thousands of years ago, but because she was directly created by God, she was able to simply slip out of Heaven and live a second life on Earth.
• Badass Normal: Season 5 reveals that she has taken martial arts training to become a bounty hunter. This is shown in the season finale, when she participates in the angelic war as one of the only two human participants, carrying a gun containing bullets made of Maze's melted knives.
• Betty and Veronica: The Veronica to Chloe’s Betty 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 him back to being the punishing Devil he once was while Chloe wants him to embrace his goodness.
• Big Bad Ensemble: While technically not evil, Eve is nevertheless the primary instigator for most of the conflict in Season Four, serving as The Corruptor towards Lucifer and being the one responsible for summoning Dromos.
• Bounty Hunter: She becomes this in season 5, because bounty hunting reminds her of Maze.
• Combat Stilettos: She almost always wears heels when she's out and about^note probably because Inbar Lavi is the third shortest cast member at 5'3 (with Rachael Harris (5'1) and Scarlett Estevez (3'11) being the other two), and although "combat" might be a bit of a stretch, she does use them in the Season 4 finale to kill a demon-possessed woman by bringing her heel down hard on her eye.
• Death Is Cheap: As a human created directly by God's hand rather than born, she was able to simply slip back into her old bones and come back to life when she left Heaven.
• Everyone Has Standards: She has no problem bringing demons to Earth if she can force Lucifer back to Hell, but draws a line at kidnapping and using a newborn as his replacement.
• Fatal Flaw: Two, both of which Chloe calls her out on in the Season Four finale.
  • Her co-dependency issues and Love Martyr tendencies are so extreme they manifest into outright selfishness, which is a result of being created for Adam but never living up to his expectations. It's also prevalent in her relationship with Lucifer, who, to Eve, is a corporeal representation of the happiest times of Eve's first mortal life.
  • Her naivete. That isn't a result of anything negative, just the logical conclusion of a human who lived and died during the dawn of time entering modern society. Eve has very little understanding of the complexity of the modern human's motivations and morality because she never had to deal with it before. All the humans that existed in her lifetime were directly descended from her and therefore shared a family dynamic with her; and when she died, she went to Heaven, where motivations and morality were rendered irrelevant because the only people who went there were good people.
• Fish out of Temporal Water: Eve was the first woman ever created, and the only humans alive during her lifetime were directly related to her. Because of this, she's not used to modern day Earth at all.
• First Love: Lucifer's. Except, subverted. Lucifer never really loved Eve — his first and only love has always been Chloe.
• Friend to All Children: Seeing as she was the first mother ever, it's no surprise how protective she becomes of Charlie nor how engaging she is to Trixie.
• Genki Girl: She can be incredibly hyper when she's happy and/or excited about something, which equals most of the time she's around Lucifer.
• Good Angel, Bad Angel: She is Lucifer's bad angel to Chloe's good angel, encouraging him to embrace his darkness and original ruthless personality while Chloe wants him to embrace the good. One scene in "Devil Is as Devil Does" actually shows Eve and Chloe stand to the left and right of Lucifer during an interrogation, respectively, with the former goading him to deliver a vigilante justice at the suspect and Chloe asking him not to.
• Happily Married: To Maze, if the series finale montage is anything to go by.
• The Hedonist: Most of her spare time in Season 4 is spent discovering all the fun things that humanity has discovered, and being sad when people try to prevent her from doing so.
  Eve: This world is full of dumbass rules, like "No drugs for breakfast!" or "Put on some clothes!"
• Hell of a Heaven: Eve hated Heaven because it was so boring. She tried to combat this by meeting all the new arrivals and listening to their stories, but all that did was cause her to long to live a mortal life again.
• Honorary Aunt: To Rory, Lucifer and Chloe's daughter, in the future.
• Horrible Judge of Character: As a result of living and dying during the beginning of time, where human motivations were much less complex, and then spending her afterlife in Heaven. She also called her son Abel kind and gentle when it's established that he was a selfish hedonist that became the first soul in Hell (though it's implied Eve idealized him after his death).
• I Just Want to Be Loved: So she tries to act like someone else, thinking the person she's pining for (like Lucifer) would like her that way. Even though she does find someone^note Maze who likes her for herself, Eve has to find out on her own who that is.
• It Runs in the Family: Hedonism. Not only is she a hedonist, but so were her two eldest sons. Cain eventually grew out of it, largely due to boredom. Abel never did and most likely never will, because his hedonism is the only comfort he has during his Hell loop.
• Lady in Red: Prominently wears red in the episodes where she enables the worst of Lucifer’s vices, both sexually and in terms of violence. She also tells Trixie that it's her favourite color.
• Loved by All: People are quick to make friends with her. Even Chloe, who admits her jealousy at Eve for stealing Lucifer's attention, can't bring herself to hate her because she is just that charming. Even general-sourpuss Maze likes her (to go along with obviously Lucifer, Chloe, Amenadiel, and Ella all also giving positive opinions of her).
• Loving a Shadow: It becomes gradually clear that Eve doesn't love Lucifer so much as the person she used to be when she was with Lucifer thousands of years ago. Eventually, she comes to this realization herself, which allows them to make a clean break in the Season Four finale.
• Mother of a Thousand Young: She's the mother of Humankind.
• Manic Pixie Dream Girl: Is single-mindedly devoted to being with Lucifer and getting him back to being the person he used to be back when they were together the first time. Deconstructed when Eve realizes that she has never been single in her entire life (which started at the dawn of time) and needs to be alone to figure out who she really is.
• Nice Girl: While she is a massive hedonist and ultimately a bad influence on Lucifer, it doesn't change the fact that she's ultimately quite sweet, very kind and very friendly. Even when she wants to, Chloe simply can't bring herself to hate her.
• Nice Job Breaking It, Hero: After Lucifer breaks up with her, Eve is so desperate to get him back that she kidnaps Father Kinley from his prison transfer to try and convince him to tell Lucifer that the prophecy is bullshit. Kinley tries to kill her to stop it instead; Eve kills him in self-defense, allowing one of the demons from Hell to possess his body. The following episode, said demon starts killing people en masse to allow more demons to roam the Earth.
• One Degree of Separation:
  • Lucifer's partner (and Eve's rival love interest) Chloe Decker dated and was briefly engaged to Marcus Pierce, aka Eve's son Cain.
  • The entire human cast has Eve as one of their two common ancestors (the other being her husband, Adam), due to her being one of the two progenitors of humanity. That being said, the blood relation is so distant it might as well be non-existent.
• Parental Obliviousness: She believes that Abel was "sweet and innocent", seemingly unaware that he was just as bad as Cain, and was Hell's first occupant.
• Pitbull Dates Puppy: Maze is the pitbull. Eve is the puppy.
• Put on a Bus: In "Who's da New King of Hell?", as she decides to leave everyone to figure out where she fits in the world.
  • The Bus Came Back: Returns in "A Little Harmless Stalking" having taken up bounty hunting on her own.
• Red Herring: As it turns out, Eve has nothing to do with the demonic prophecy that Season 4 focuses on. She is not "the Devil's first love", because he never truly loves anyone other than Chloe. Eve just happens to leave Heaven at the same that Father Kinley approaches Chloe to help him send Lucifer back to Hell. However, she does make things worse, though she eventually makes up for it.
• Replacement Goldfish: She was created to replace Lilith, and is bitter that Adam never stopped comparing her to his first wife.
• Romantic False Lead: Hooks up with Lucifer for most of Season 4, until both realize that they never really loved each other and decide to break up.
• Shameless Fanservice Girl: One of the things that pisses her off about modern-day Earth is that she has to wear clothes. To her credit, she is one of the original nudists.
• Toxic Friend Influence: To Lucifer. Eve herself isn't a bad person, but her selfishness and "all-play" attitude cause Lucifer to briefly regress his Character Development to pre-Season One. It's ultimately the main reason he broke up with her, with the prophecy just giving him an excuse.
• Unwitting Instigator of Doom: Her plan to get Lucifer and her back together via ruling Hell as a couple leads to the deaths of dozens of people and the kidnapping of baby Charlie, whom the demons intend to replace Lucifer as the King of Hell.
• Who Wants to Live Forever?: She doesn't want to live forever, knowing how immortality drove her son Cain mad. As a result, she turns down Maze's offer of Lilith's ring.
• You Killed My Father: Subverted. Eve holds nothing against Lucifer for killing Cain. This is for two reasons: 1) She knows him well enough to know he wouldn't have killed Cain without a good reason and 2) She's met with several souls Cain "sent" to Heaven (most noticeably Charlotte) and knows that, despite what he was to her, he was not a good person.