99 Fun Facts About Lucifer

Who plays Lucifer Morningstar in the TV series Lucifer?

Tom Ellis. The Cardiff-born actor has admitted he had no idea the show came from a comic book when he auditioned; it was the pilot script that won him over.

In the show, Lucifer abandons Hell to run what kind of business in Los Angeles?

A nightclub. Bored and unhappy after millennia as the Lord of Hell, he quits in defiance of his father and opens Lux, which he runs with the demon Maze behind the bar.

Detective Chloe Decker intrigues Lucifer because she is the first human to be what?

Immune to his charms. His usual powers of persuasion fail on her, and season two reveals why she is different: her birth was a miracle, a blessing Amenadiel delivered on God's orders.

Which supernatural power is Lucifer's signature move on the show?

Making people reveal their desires. He holds someone's gaze and asks what they truly desire, but it is no sure thing: the more complex the person, the longer they can resist.

Lucifer's pilot was screened for fans at which convention six months before its TV premiere?

San Diego Comic-Con. Fans saw the pilot there in July 2015, while a petition was still trying to keep the show off the air; it finally premiered on January 25, 2016.

Which network originally broadcast Lucifer before cancelling it after three seasons?

Fox. It called the May 2018 cancellation a ratings-based decision, though the writers had ended season three on a huge cliffhanger precisely so that the network couldn't walk away.

Which hashtag did fans rally around after Lucifer was cancelled in 2018?

#SaveLucifer. It became Twitter's top trending topic, the show was revived within weeks, and the writers thanked fans by titling a season-four episode 'Save Lucifer'.

Which streaming service revived Lucifer and made its final three seasons?

Netflix. It picked the show up a month after the cancellation and made three more seasons, six in all, even though Hulu had been its American streaming home until then.

How does the fourth season of Lucifer end for the Devil himself?

He returns to rule Hell. Demons loose in Los Angeles need a king to keep them in line, so he goes back to his throne, moments after Chloe finally tells him she loves him.

Neil Gaiman created the comic-book Lucifer with which two artists?

Sam Kieth and Mike Dringenberg were the first penciller and inker on Neil Gaiman's comic, so they share creator credit for the Lucifer who debuted there in 1989.

The comic-book Lucifer was originally drawn to resemble which musician?

David Bowie. Neil Gaiman, a fan, asked the artists to model the comic's Lucifer on the singer, and the TV series tips its hat by putting Bowie's songs on its soundtrack.

The DC Comics Lucifer first appeared in 1989 in issue #4 of which series?

The Sandman #4, 'A Hope in Hell' (April 1989), introduced Lucifer as the ruler of Hell whom Morpheus confronts to recover his stolen helm.

Who wrote the Vertigo comic series Lucifer (2000-2006) that followed the character after he left Hell?

Mike Carey wrote all 75 issues of Vertigo's Lucifer (2000-2006), expanding the character's exile from Hell into his own long-running saga; the TV show adapts it only loosely.

Whom does the demon Maze marry in the final season of Lucifer?

Eve. The wedding nearly falls apart when Adam, the husband she left behind, turns up hoping to win her back, an arrival that Maze herself turns out to have engineered.

Amenadiel, played by D. B. Woodside, is what relation to Lucifer?

His older brother. The eldest of the angels arrives to force Lucifer back to Hell, fails, and ends up staying on Earth himself and becoming a father there.

Linda Martin, played by Rachael Harris, is Lucifer's what?

Psychotherapist. She treats his talk of being the Devil as an elaborate metaphor until season two, when he shows her his true face and leaves her frozen in shock.

Linda and Amenadiel's baby Charlie is described as history's first what?

Half-angel, half-human. Born in season four, Charlie is promptly kidnapped by demons who want to raise him as their new king, and Lucifer has to frighten them back where they came from.

Detective Dan Espinoza, played by Kevin Alejandro, is what to Chloe?

Her ex-husband. A fellow LAPD detective, Dan trades insults with Lucifer for years as Lucifer grows close to Chloe, yet the two become unlikely friends before Dan is shot dead in season five.

What is the real first name of Chloe Decker's young daughter, Trixie?

Beatrice. Trixie is only her nickname, and the fearless child attaches herself to Lucifer and Maze, a devil and a demon who at first want nothing to do with her.

Ella Lopez, the LAPD forensic scientist played by Aimee Garcia, comes from which city?

Detroit. Ella grew up there with four brothers and admits to stealing cars as a teenager, an unlikely past for the LAPD's sunniest forensic scientist.

Tom Welling's Lieutenant Marcus Pierce in season three is secretly which biblical figure?

The world's first murderer, cursed to wander the Earth with the Mark of Cain, wants Lucifer's help to finally die.

Tricia Helfer joined the cast in season two as Charlotte Richards, a body inhabited by whom?

Lucifer's mother, the Goddess. Having escaped her prison in Hell, the exiled wife of God takes over the body of a murdered lawyer; Helfer later plays the real Charlotte, revived and shaken.

In season five of Lucifer, the lead actor also plays which second character?

Lucifer's twin brother Michael. The archangel poses as Lucifer on Earth while his brother is away, told apart by a drooping right shoulder: the chip on his shoulder made literal.

In season five of Lucifer, Lesley-Ann Brandt also plays which figure, Maze's mother?

Lilith. In a black-and-white story set in 1946 she is a cabaret singer who decides she has lived long enough, seals her immortality inside her ring and hands the ring to Lucifer.

Rory, played by Brianna Hildebrand in Lucifer's final season, arrives seeking what?

Rory comes back through time seeking vengeance on Lucifer, the father she believes abandoned her; she turns out to be Lucifer and Chloe's daughter from the future.

Where was most of Lucifer's first two seasons filmed?

Vancouver doubled for Los Angeles in the first two seasons; only the pilot was shot in LA, and production moved there entirely from season three.

Which group petitioned in 2015 to stop Lucifer, saying it would 'glorify Satan as a caring, likable person'?

One Million Moms. The American Family Association project gathered tens of thousands of signatures and changed nothing: the show premiered on schedule and was renewed within three months.

Lucifer Morningstar made a cameo in which Arrowverse crossover event?

Crisis on Infinite Earths (2019) featured Lucifer helping John Constantine and Mia Smoak reach Purgatory in the Flash chapter, repaying a favour involving Maze.

Lucifer's developer Tom Kapinos created which Showtime series?

Californication. Kapinos developed Lucifer and wrote its pilot, but he never ran the show: another writer was hired as showrunner before it aired, and he stayed on in a lesser role.

Lucifer's lead actor was already familiar in Britain as the chef Gary Preston in which BBC sitcom?

Miranda. He played the chef next door, the will-they-won't-they love interest of Miranda Hart's heroine, and after years of near misses the two finally married in the last episode.

The last four episodes of Lucifer's second season aired as part of which season?

The third season absorbed them: the four held-over episodes aired among its run, leaving season two at 18; two further episodes made for a planned fourth network season aired as bonus episodes in May 2018.

Lesley-Ann Brandt, who plays the demon Maze on Lucifer, was born in which country?

South Africa. Born in Cape Town, she emigrated to Auckland with her family as a teenager and began acting on New Zealand television before Spartacus gave her a big break.

Netflix's fifth season of Lucifer contained how many episodes, split into two halves?

Season five had 16 episodes: eight released in August 2020 and eight more in May 2021, after Netflix expanded its original order.

How did Lucifer's Chloe Decker make her living before she joined the LAPD?

As an actress. Her one film was the low-budget Hot Tub High School, an embarrassment she can't shake: Lucifer places her as the girl from the movie in the pilot.

Eve, introduced in season four, is described as having recently left where?

Eve had grown bored in Heaven and left it to find Lucifer on Earth; Inbar Lavi plays her from season four.

The Latin name Lucifer means 'light-bringer' and was the Roman name for which planet?

Venus, seen as the morning star, was 'Lucifer' (light-bringer) to the Romans; the planet outshines every star in the dawn sky, and the name was only later attached to Satan.

The name Lucifer entered the Bible through the Vulgate's Latin translation of a verse in which book?

Isaiah 14:12's Hebrew phrase means 'Shining One, Son of the Dawn' and originally taunted a Babylonian king.

When Lucifer quit Hell for Los Angeles, what did he have the demon Maze cut off?

His wings. Maze severs them when he settles on Earth, yet they grow back at the end of season two and keep returning each time he cuts them off again.

Which Underworld director also directed the pilot episode of Lucifer?

Len Wiseman. He had form at launching series, having directed the pilots of Hawaii Five-0 and Sleepy Hollow, and after shooting Lucifer's first episode he stayed on as an executive producer.

Before Lucifer, Lauren German played the paramedic Leslie Shay in which NBC drama?

Chicago Fire. She spent two seasons in the firehouse before Shay was killed off, and the show painted the character's name on the door of her ambulance as a memorial.

In what capacity does Lucifer Morningstar work with the LAPD on the show?

Civilian consultant. After helping to solve the murder in the pilot he manoeuvres his way into the role, which gives the former lord of Hell a new outlet for punishing the guilty.

Which blockbuster producer's television company made Lucifer alongside DC Entertainment and Warner Bros.?

Jerry Bruckheimer. His television company, best known for the CSI franchise, co-produced all six seasons, turning a cosmic fantasy comic into a loosely adapted police drama with a murder to solve each week.

What do Rory's wings have instead of feathers?

Blades. Rory's crimson wings are metallic, each feather as sharp as a knife, which made learning to fly a danger to herself and others, and they are sharp enough to wound even Lucifer.

Which angel is revealed in season three to have visited Ella regularly since a childhood car crash?

Azrael. The Angel of Death came to collect eight-year-old Ella after the crash, found it was a false alarm and stayed on as 'Rae-Rae', the friend Ella took for a ghost.

Which name did the ancient Greeks give to the morning star?

Phosphoros. The name means 'light-bringer', which Latin rendered as Lucifer; the Greeks at first took the morning and evening stars for two separate bodies and called the other one Hesperos.

Why did Lucifer's production move to California starting with season three?

State tax incentives drew it: Lucifer was among the relocating series awarded credits under the California Film Commission's expanded Program 2.0, so season three was shot in Los Angeles.

In Roman myth, Lucifer was the son of Cephalus and which goddess?

Aurora, goddess of the dawn, was Lucifer's mother in Roman myth; fittingly, Ovid's Metamorphoses has her son marshal the stars each dawn and leave the sky last.

Brianna Hildebrand, Lucifer's Rory, played Negasonic Teenage Warhead in which superhero film series?

Deadpool. She was cast as the sullen teenage mutant in 2015 and returned for the sequels; five years on she joined Lucifer's final season as another angry young woman with powers.

Which 19th-century French hoaxer claimed Freemasonry secretly worshipped Lucifer?

Léo Taxil ran the hoax from 1885 to 1897, inventing a Luciferian Masonic 'Palladium' and a fake witness, Diana Vaughan, before confessing the fabrication in Paris in April 1897.

What is the name of the Los Angeles venue Lucifer Morningstar opens after abandoning his throne in Hell?

Lux is where the Devil plays host for five years before he ever helps the LAPD, with Maze following him up from Hell to keep him safe there.

What is Lucifer Morningstar's original God-given angelic name, which he abandoned for one he chose himself?

Samael is the name a mystery man uses for him in season two, which helps convince Lucifer that the stranger might really be his father.

Which former Chicago Fire paramedic actress plays detective Chloe Decker in Lucifer?

Lauren German played paramedic Leslie Shay before Lucifer; when Shay was killed off, the character's name was put on the door of her ambulance as a memorial.

In Lucifer's second season, which new career does the demon Maze find after working as a bartender and bodyguard?

Bounty hunter turns out to be the first job on Earth that feels right to her, and by the series finale she is still chasing fugitives with her wife as partner.

Which special power does the angel Amenadiel have that Lucifer Morningstar lacks in the TV series Lucifer?

He can slow time, a gift that fires by accident in season five when his worry over his sick baby son freezes everyone around him.

What mocking nickname does Lucifer Morningstar repeatedly use for his LAPD colleague Dan Espinoza?

Detective Douche is his go-to insult, though the pair's constant sniping slowly gives way to an unlikely friendship.

Which actor, famous as President David Palmer in 24, appears as God in the fifth season of Lucifer?

Dennis Haysbert arrives to break up a fight between his sons, reuniting with 24 co-star D. B. Woodside, who played Wayne Palmer and is Lucifer's Amenadiel.

Tom Welling, Lucifer's Lieutenant Marcus Pierce, is best known for playing Clark Kent in which series?

Smallville cast him after a nationwide search for its Clark Kent, and he once said the other role he would have wanted on the show was Lex Luthor.

In Lucifer season two, how does young Trixie react when the demon Maze shows her true face?

She thinks it's a costume because Maze unmasks while taking her trick-or-treating on Halloween, so the demon's secret stays safe.

What does Lucifer Morningstar do with his stolen angel wings after getting the pair back in season one?

Sets them on fire: after going to great lengths to get them back, he burns them as an act of rebellion against his father's wishes.

What does Chloe Decker finally see in Lucifer's season three finale that proves his claims were true all along?

His Devil face had vanished at the start of the season and only comes back when he kills Marcus Pierce in the finale.

Which car does Lucifer Morningstar drive around Los Angeles, later inherited by his daughter Rory?

A black Corvette is the Devil's ride, and Rory is still driving it decades on, in the future she travels back from.

In what form does the murdered Dan Espinoza return to Earth during the final season of Lucifer?

As a ghost, he can be seen only by his angelic and demonic friends, a long way from the resurrection he had hoped for.

Why does Lucifer Morningstar go back to rule Hell at the end of season four, leaving Chloe Decker behind?

To keep demons in line: after they kidnap a newborn to crown as their new king, he decides Hell needs its ruler back and flies home on white wings.

In Lucifer, what does season two reveal about how Chloe Decker came to be born?

She was a miracle: her mother Penelope was barren until Amenadiel intervened on God's orders, and learning this makes Lucifer push Chloe away.

Lucifer's lead actor, raised in the English city of Sheffield, was actually born in which country?

Wales, in Cardiff, is where he was born alongside a twin sister; together they broke the Welsh record for the heaviest twins.

In Lucifer's first season, what happens when Lucifer talks Chloe Decker into shooting him to prove he is immortal?

The bullet wounds him in the leg and, to his bewilderment, he bleeds, the first sign that being near Chloe makes him vulnerable.

In the mythology of Lucifer, which feeling keeps damned souls trapped in their personal Hell loops?

Guilt is the lock on every cell: a soul that truly lets go of it can rise out of Hell, as Dan Espinoza finally does after talking to his daughter.

In Lucifer, which legendary weapon that once guarded the Garden of Eden is pieced back together in season two?

The Flaming Sword is powerful enough to cut open the celestial gates, and one of its pieces turns out to be the necklace Amenadiel's father gave him.

Which blend of the lead couple's surnames completes the season three Lucifer episode title 'Quintessential …'?

Deckerstar titles the penultimate episode of season three, in which Lucifer finally confesses his feelings and he and Chloe kiss again.

Which brother does Lucifer Morningstar reluctantly kill in season two to protect both Chloe Decker and his mother?

Uriel, played by Sopranos star Michael Imperioli, can foresee patterns of events, and his death becomes the scene Lucifer relives in his own Hell loop.

What is the profession of Charlotte Richards, the murder victim whose body revives in Lucifer's second season?

Lawyer Charlotte Richards later remembers her time in Hell, and the fright drives her to try to be a better person, working for the district attorney's office.

Under which alias does Lieutenant Marcus Pierce secretly run a feared criminal empire in Lucifer's third season?

The Sinnerman is the feared crime lord Lucifer spends early season three trying to prove exists, not knowing the man runs his own precinct.

Which new career does the angel Amenadiel pursue late in Lucifer, spurred on by the murder of Dan Espinoza?

Police officer is the path he chooses, joining the LAPD in the final season before an even bigger promotion makes him the new God.

Where does Lucifer Morningstar wake up at the very end of season two, with his wings mysteriously restored?

In the desert is where he comes to after being knocked out cold, and season three opens with him stealing a fleeing criminal's clothes to get home.

How does Lucifer Morningstar finally settle the conflict with his vengeful mother at the end of season two?

Sends her to a new universe: he opens a rift so she can create a world of her own, free from God's influence, instead of going to war with her ex.

Which priest, serving a Church division that knows about the Devil, urges Chloe Decker to send Lucifer back to Hell?

Father Kinley, played by Graham McTavish, believes a prophecy that evil will be released when the Devil walks the Earth and finds his first love.

In Lucifer's pilot, whose murder in front of him first draws Lucifer Morningstar into working with the LAPD?

Pop star Delilah was a singer he had helped to fame, and when a drug dealer kills her he persuades Chloe Decker to let him help find whoever hired the assassin.

Which crooked LAPD detective, brought back from Hell by Amenadiel, shoots Lucifer dead in the season one finale?

Malcolm Graham kills him, but the dying Lucifer prays for Chloe's safety, so God returns him to life, and Chloe shoots Malcolm soon after.

Which mercenary murders Dan Espinoza on an archangel's orders late in the fifth season of Lucifer?

Vincent Le Mec is hired to steal Amenadiel's necklace, and he later goes to prison for the killing before escaping in the final season.

Which Las Vegas woman agrees to pose as Lucifer Morningstar's wife in season two to deceive his mother?

Candy Fletcher is someone he helped while away in Las Vegas, and the sham marriage is also meant to push Chloe away for her own good.

Which recovering-alcoholic detective takes Dan Espinoza's place and starts dating Ella Lopez in Lucifer's final season?

Carol Corbett, played by Scott Porter, was a friend of Dan's who had once tried to set him up with Ella.

Which surname does the demon Maze use as her legal alias once she starts a new career in Lucifer?

Smith is the alias on her papers, and season three even builds an episode title around it when a job takes her all the way to Canada.

Lucifer's black-and-white noir episode flashes back to a stolen-ring case in which city in 1946?

New York is where the Devil hires a private eye to find the ring, a tale he tells young Trixie, who has been paid by Maze to get the scoop.

Where does Chloe Decker take her daughter for a month after discovering that Lucifer really is the Devil?

Italy is her escape, and it is in Rome that a priest finds her and persuades her that the Devil belongs back in Hell.

Which DC Comics occultist is revealed to have helped Lucifer Morningstar bring Maze out of Hell to Los Angeles?

John Constantine did him the favour, and Lucifer repays the debt in an Arrowverse crossover by helping recover Oliver Queen's soul from Purgatory.

Lucifer's lead actor said he played the Devil as the lovechild of playwright Noël Coward and which rock star?

Mick Jagger supplied the rock-and-roll swagger, with what the actor called a dash of the British actor Terry-Thomas on top.

D. B. Woodside, the angel Amenadiel in Lucifer, earlier played school principal Robin Wood in which supernatural series?

Buffy the Vampire Slayer cast him for 14 episodes of its final season, as the principal of Sunnydale High.

Tricia Helfer, Lucifer's Charlotte Richards, is best known for playing a humanoid Cylon in which science fiction series?

Battlestar Galactica made her name, and while starring in it she also produced and hosted Canada's Next Top Model.

Which Risky Business star plays Penelope Decker, Chloe's widowed mother, in Lucifer?

Rebecca De Mornay had her star-making role in that 1983 film opposite a young Tom Cruise.

In Lucifer, what does forensic scientist Ella Lopez admit she did as a teenager alongside one of her brothers?

Stole cars, she says, and the alternate-universe bonus episode runs with it by making her a professional carjacker and mechanic.

Where does Lucifer Morningstar first meet Earl Johnson, the season two murder suspect who insists he is God?

A mental institution holds him after he gave away all his wealth, so Lucifer feigns insanity to get himself committed alongside him.

In Lucifer's fifth season, what does the scheming archangel Michael draw out of people in order to manipulate them?

Their fears are his weapon, and he uses Chloe's own to sow doubt about Lucifer after kidnapping her.

At which Los Angeles landmark do the angels gather to choose a new God in Lucifer's season five finale?

LA Memorial Coliseum hosts the vote, which ends with every angel kneeling to Lucifer after he gives his own life to bring Chloe back.

In Lucifer's fifth season, Ella Lopez's reporter boyfriend Pete Daily confesses to being which serial murderer?

The Whisper Killer is unmasked when Ella lets herself into his house and finds a farm of the rare lilies the murderer uses, then subdues him herself.

Which angel sister of Lucifer arrives on Earth in season four after sensing a celestial baby about to be born?

Remiel wants to raise the child in the Silver City and backs down only after Amenadiel beats her in single combat.

Which demon takes over a dead priest's body in Lucifer's fourth season and kidnaps baby Charlie to crown him?

Dromos, one of Maze's many siblings, wants a new ruler for Hell because only an angel can sit on its throne.

Which band performs 'Being Evil Has a Price', the song that supplies the brief opening theme of Lucifer?

Heavy Young Heathens' composers Robert and Aron Marderosian later sued Warner Bros., claiming the song was used without proper credit or a licence.

Which alias does the angel Amenadiel use in Lucifer when posing as a new colleague of Linda Martin?

Dr. Canaan nods to the ancient civilization of that name, and the angel uses the cover to try to get to Lucifer through her.

In Lucifer, which treat is young Trixie especially fond of, making her easy for the adults to bribe?

Chocolate is her weakness, and she happily takes advice from both the Devil and a demon while balancing what her parents try to teach her.