List of Lucifer characters
This is an overview of the regular, recurring, and other characters of the Fox and Netflix television series Lucifer.
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Lucifer Morningstar / Samael
is a fictional character and the protagonist of the TV series Lucifer. He is portrayed by Tom Ellis. Neil Gaiman's Lucifer was partly inspired by David Bowie, but the show's creators decided against trying to mimic Bowie. Tom Ellis saw the character as a sort of Oscar Wilde or Noël Coward character "with added rock and roll spirit", approaching his portrayal as if he were the "lovechild of Noël Coward and Mick Jagger, with a dash of British actor Terry-Thomas".Lucifer is a fallen angel who, after leading an unsuccessful rebellion against Heaven, was banished to Hell by God to serve as its Lord. Lucifer resents his father for this, and his mother for having done nothing about it. Lucifer's angelic name is Samael, meaning "Wrath/Venom of God", whereas his name of choice, Lucifer, means "Light Bringer".
In 2011, Lucifer became bored with his life, so he abdicated his throne and relocated to Los Angeles to open a high-end nightclub called Lux. He was assisted by John Constantine in retrieving Mazikeen from Hell so she could continue serving as his bodyguard. Lucifer later repaid this debt by helping Constantine and his allies recover Oliver Queen's soul from Purgatory. After five years, Lucifer becomes a civilian consultant for the Los Angeles Police Department in the pilot episode, while still running Lux.
Lucifer is open about his identity as the Devil, always telling people who he is. However, few take his claims seriously unless he shows them his "Devil Face": his true, demonic appearance, which he usually does to frighten evildoers. Lucifer is highly sexual and is irresistible to most people.
As a fallen angel, Lucifer possesses several supernatural traits and abilities. He has superhuman strength, enough to throw a grown man several yards or hold an accelerating car in place. Lucifer is immortal and his human body is highly durable; he can withstand gunfire or walk through a burning building without harm. He can, however, be injured by Mazikeen's mystical hell-forged karambit blades or the Blade of Azrael, which all celestial beings are vulnerable to.
Lucifer originally had a pair of angelic wings, which he had severed by Maze when he arrived in Los Angeles. These wings grew back at the end of season two. The wings are as durable as Lucifer's body; they can resist gunfire and, when flapped, can generate a wind strong enough to knock down a human.
Lucifer also possesses the supernatural ability to make people reveal their hidden desires by simply making eye contact and asking them. It is neither hypnosis nor telepathy, and is dependent upon whenever the person it is being used upon is a simple or complex person: the more complex a person is, the more they can resist, and the more time and effort is needed to overcome their resistance. An added caveat is that Lucifer must maintain eye contact with the subject, and only Chloe Decker has been shown to be fully immune to the effect.
Lucifer's principal weakness is that he becomes vulnerable to harm whenever Chloe is close to him or in his immediate vicinity. If he is mortally injured when Chloe is nearby, it is possible for him to die just like any human. This effect even renders Lucifer susceptible to minor cuts or painfully stubbing his toe. Once Chloe is far enough away from him, Lucifer's body regains its durability, but in the pilot episode, he was still invulnerable near Chloe, and he did not begin to lose his durability until after a moment of emotional vulnerability, where Chloe sees the scars on Lucifer's back, where his wings were. Chloe's presence does not deprive Lucifer of any of his other supernatural traits, such as his strength. This suggests that Lucifer's physical vulnerability is a manifestation of his emotional vulnerability where Chloe is concerned.
Lucifer is shown to have a complicated relationship with his family. During season 1, his brother Amenadiel tries to force him to return to his throne in Hell, but he steadfastly refuses to comply with his father's wishes. When the container holding his wings is stolen in the episode "Favorite Son", Lucifer goes to great lengths to recover them, only to set them on fire as a sign of his rebellion against God's wishes. In the season finale, however, Lucifer prays to God to save Chloe's life after he is shot, willing to do anything in exchange. God gives him a vision: Lucifer's mother has escaped Hell and it is his duty to bring her back.
Season 2 shows his complicated relationship with his mother. While he initially intends to help her return to Heaven, he finally decides to send her to another universe, where she can create her own world free from God's influence. His wings are restored in season 2's finale, but he severs them again in season 3, seeing them as God trying to impose his will on him, but resigns himself to them after finding that they reappear every time he cuts them.
On Earth, Lucifer creates a connection with Detective Chloe Decker, who's immune to his abilities. In the first-season episode "Manly Whatnots", he encourages Chloe to shoot him so she would have proof he is the Devil, but the bullet wounds him, which is the first instance of Lucifer becoming vulnerable to physical harm when she is around. His growing feelings for her confuse him at first until he finally accepts he is in love with her, though he is unable to articulate his feelings. After Chloe kisses him in season 2 episode "Stewardess Interruptus", he discovers she is the result of a miracle performed by Amenadiel on God's orders and pushes her away for her own good.
In season 3, he has to deal with the new precinct lieutenant, Marcus Pierce. When he discovers Pierce is Cain the first murderer, he agrees to help him find a way to die in order to annoy his father, but backs off after Chloe is put in danger. He also struggles with his feelings for her when she starts dating Pierce, and his inability to express them. Midway through the season, he also loses his Devil Face. In the penultimate episode, "Quintessential Deckerstar", Lucifer and Chloe kiss again after he confesses his feelings for her, but this happens just before he kills Cain and recovers his Devil Face, which Chloe finally sees in the season finale.
In season 4, Lucifer has to deal with the aftermath of Chloe finally learning the truth and the return of Eve, his first-ever lover. Meanwhile, Amenadiel learns that Linda is pregnant with their half angel son. Due to Chloe's betrayal, Lucifer resumes his relationship with Eve, who claims to be in love with him and accepts him for who he is. As the season progresses, Lucifer's growing hatred of himself cause his angel wings to become demon wings and he gains a more demonic alternate form. At the same time, a priest, Father Kinley, reveals a prophecy that Lucifer and his first love will unleash evil upon the Earth. Meanwhile, with Eve at his side urging him on, Lucifer slips back into old habits, going as far as brutally crippling a criminal, but he later realizes he does not like who he is around Eve and breaks up with her.
In the season finale, after Eve kills Kinley and summons the demon Dromos into his body, Lucifer has to rescue his nephew, Charlie, Linda and Amenadiel's newborn son from Dromos and his demon allies, using his full demonic form to scare the demons into returning to Hell. Chloe finally accepts Lucifer completely, even after seeing his demonic form, and admits her love for him. Lucifer then decides to return to Hell to keep the demons in line, recognizing that Chloe was his true first love all along, not Eve. After a tearful goodbye and last kiss with Chloe, Lucifer uses his wings, angelic white once again, to return to his throne in Hell.
In season 5, Lucifer returns from Hell to confront his twin brother Michael, who attempts to steal his identity, leaving Amenadiel in his place. He later learns from Amenadiel that God relieved him from his duties as the guardian of Hell and moves forward with his relationship with Chloe. Lucifer and Amenadiel later confront Michael and Maze, but the fight is stopped by God's intervention. After mending his relationship with his father, Lucifer battles with Michael for the right to succeed him, eventually winning and being recognized by his siblings as the new God.
In the final season, Lucifer is attacked by Rory, a half-angel who is later revealed to be his and Chloe's future daughter, and who is angry with Lucifer for abandoning Chloe before she is born and never returning because of reasons her mother never revealed. Lucifer spends most of the season bonding with his daughter while trying to find out what drove him to leave her and Chloe; in the midst of this, he realizes that he is not fit to become God and relinquishes the position to Amenadiel. In the series finale, Lucifer discovers that he has the ability to redeem lost souls from Hell upon realizing that Dan ascended to heaven thanks to his advice. To ensure that the timeline is unaltered, Lucifer is forced to say goodbye to Chloe and Rory and return permanently to Hell, working as a therapist to help the humans there to ascend, and reuniting with Chloe after her death.
Chloe Decker
Chloe Decker is a LAPD homicide detective and Lucifer's partner. She is portrayed by Lauren German.She solves crimes with Lucifer after he takes an interest in her because she appears immune to his abilities. She, on her part, finds his "Lucifer-ness" both intriguing and hard to deal with. Due to an earlier incident concerning a cop shooting, she was ostracized by her fellow officers, resulting in her being partnered with Lucifer as her civilian consultant. Though she is against it at first, she warms up to him and agrees that his unconventional ways are useful, even if his personality often puts her nerves on edge. Lucifer frequently addresses her as "Detective" rather than by name.
In season 1, Chloe is separated from her husband, Dan, also an LAPD detective, with whom she has a daughter, Trixie. After an attempt to get back together was sabotaged by Malcolm, they finally decide to divorce, though they remain good friends. Her father, John Decker, was a LAPD officer killed in the line of duty. Chloe's widowed mother Penelope is an actress, as was Chloe herself, briefly, but her only movie, Hot Tub High School, is now a source of embarrassment for her, as she had topless scenes in it. The events of season 2 reveal that Penelope was barren and Chloe's conception was the result of a miracle, performed by God with assistance from Amenadiel.
Though she initially denied any possibility of ever sleeping with Lucifer, despite his attempts at seduction, in the season 2 episode "Stewardess Interruptus", she realizes he has come to care for her as more than just a conquest and kisses him. After Lucifer discovers the truth about her birth, he quickly backpedals, believing he is protecting her. During season 3, she finds herself the object of affection of both Lucifer and Marcus Pierce. Though she becomes briefly engaged to the latter, she breaks it off and kisses Lucifer again in the penultimate episode, "Quintessential Deckerstar", after he finally confesses his feelings for her.
Chloe is highly skeptical of Lucifer's claims to be the Devil, but she is intrigued by the things she has seen him do, for which she struggles to find a logical explanation. In season 2's premiere, she tried to analyze a sample of Lucifer's blood to find out the truth, which forced Amenadiel to throw her off the trail by fabricating a plausible explanation for Lucifer's abilities. In the Season 3 finale, Chloe sees Lucifer's true face and finally realizes his claims were true.
The Season 4 premiere reveals that, following the revelation, Chloe took Trixie on a month-long trip to Italy. In Rome, she encountered Father Kinley, who counseled her that the best thing for Earth and Lucifer was for him to return to Hell. After questioning Lucifer and learning that he hated ruling Hell, Chloe realizes Lucifer really has changed from the church's vision of him and decides not to go through with the plan. Kinley, however, orchestrates events to try and force Lucifer to prove himself as evil as history claims; though Kinley's plan fails and he is arrested, Lucifer and Chloe's partnership is almost irreparably damaged by her betrayal. The two eventually make up, but they part ways again when Lucifer returns to Hell to keep the demons at bay.
In season 5, after Lucifer returns from Hell, the two resume their relationship, which is strained once she learns from Michael that she was created by God as a gift to him, but she eventually comes to accept it and the two become lovers. Chloe later supports Lucifer in his effort to become the new God and is devastated by the murder of Dan. Michael kills her during the final battle, and she is reunited with her father in Heaven before Lucifer sacrifices himself to resurrect her. Using Amenadiel's necklace, which imbues her with angelic strength, Chloe subdues Michael before Lucifer's selfless sacrifice resurrects him as the new God.
In season 6, Lucifer and Chloe continue to navigate their relationship, complicated by the arrival of their daughter Rory from the future. Rory reveals that in the near future, Lucifer will vanish from Earth for good, leaving Chloe to raise a bitter and angry Rory. After seeing her parents together and hearing about their relationship from the perspective of Linda Martin, Rory finally comes to an understanding of her father and reconciles with him.
In the series finale, Chloe and Lucifer work together to rescue Rory from Vincent Le Mec, Dan's murderer. Despite being severely wounded, Chloe refuses to be left behind and kills Le Mec. Having learned that Dan's soul made it into Heaven, Lucifer, Chloe, and Rory realize that Lucifer's true purpose is to help the souls of Hell release their guilt and achieve redemption, the true reason that he disappears from Earth for good. Before returning to her own time, Rory makes Lucifer promise not to change anything, and he departs for Hell shortly thereafter with Chloe's blessing, despite it leaving them both heartbroken. After Lucifer's departure, Chloe is promoted to Lieutenant and continues to solve murders with Ella and Carol Corbett while raising Rory as a single mother. Decades later, after returning to her own time, Rory makes peace with the elderly Chloe, who is on her deathbed. Chloe reassures her daughter that it was all worth it and that she would not change a thing before she dies.
After her death, Chloe meets Amenadiel in Heaven, who takes her to Hell where she is reunited with Lucifer, much to his shock and delight, offering to be Lucifer's partner for eternity.