50 Fun Facts About Lucifer

Who plays Lucifer Morningstar in the TV series Lucifer?

The Welsh actor was cast in February 2015. His singing on the show is real, though the piano playing you see is not his.

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

The club is called Lux. He then falls into consulting for the LAPD after a murder investigation.

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

Lauren German plays her. Chloe is a former actress whose late father was an LAPD officer.

What is Lucifer's most frequently used power on the show?

The 'What is it you truly desire?' routine is how he cracks most cases. Chloe is the one person it never works on.

Lucifer began airing on January 25 of which year?

The pilot had been screened at San Diego Comic-Con the previous July. The series concluded on September 10, 2021.

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

The cancellation came in May 2018; Netflix picked it up a month later after a fan campaign.

Which hashtag did fans and the showrunners rally around after the 2018 cancellation?

Co-showrunner Joe Henderson deliberately ended season three on a huge cliffhanger to make cancellation harder and told fans to 'make noise'.

How many seasons did Lucifer run for in total?

Three on Fox and three on Netflix. The sixth and final season of ten episodes was released on September 10, 2021.

Netflix's first season of Lucifer, season four, consisted of how many episodes?

It was released on May 8, 2019. Season five was longer, sixteen episodes split into two halves.

The TV Lucifer is based on a DC Comics character created by Neil Gaiman and which two artists?

The character debuted in The Sandman #4 in 1989. Gaiman asked for him to be modelled on David Bowie.

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

Gaiman is a fan, and some of the singer's music turns up on the TV series too.

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

He later starred in his own Vertigo series written by Mike Carey from 2000 to 2006, which the TV show only loosely adapts.

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

The TV series is described as only a 'loose adaptation' of it.

Who is Mazikeen, better known as Maze?

Lesley-Ann Brandt plays her. In LA she works as bartender and bodyguard at Lux, and later becomes a bounty hunter.

Whom does Maze marry in the final season?

Eve, the first woman, is played by Inbar Lavi and was introduced in season four as Lucifer's ex.

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

He is an angel and the eldest of all their siblings, sent at first to drag Lucifer back to Hell.

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

She is Stanford-educated, and in season four she and Amenadiel have a son, Charlie, the first half-angel, half-human baby.

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

He arrives in season four. Rory, a Nephilim from the future, is another such child introduced in season six.

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

He and Lucifer trade insults constantly, partly because of Lucifer's growing closeness to Chloe. Their daughter is Trixie.

What is the real first name of Chloe and Dan's daughter Trixie?

Scarlett Estevez plays her. She befriends both Lucifer and Maze, to their initial annoyance.

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

Garcia joined as a regular in season two. Ella is the show's resident hugger and devout believer.

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?

The 'goddess of all creation' and exiled wife of God escapes her prison in Hell. Helfer later played the real Charlotte, a lawyer.

In season five, Tom Ellis also plays which second character?

Michael, described as having 'a chip on his shoulder', briefly steals Lucifer's identity while his brother is back in Hell.

Also in season five, Lesley-Ann Brandt plays a second role as which figure, revealed to be Maze's mother?

The show makes her Lucifer's ex-lover too, and her soullessness explains why Maze lacks a soul.

Rory, played by Brianna Hildebrand in season six, arrives seeking what?

She is a Nephilim, half-human and half-angel, whose full name is Aurora.

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

Only the pilot was shot in LA at first; 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'?

The American Family Association site had 31,312 signatures by premiere day. The show mocked the campaign in season two when Lucifer asks 'Is it the Yakuza?'

Lucifer Morningstar made a cameo in which Arrowverse crossover event?

The scene confirms he knows about the multiverse and shares history with John Constantine involving Mazikeen.

Who developed the Lucifer TV series and wrote its pilot?

The Californication creator stepped back after the pilot; Fox hired Almost Human's Joe Henderson as showrunner. Wiseman directed the pilot.

Tom Ellis was born in Cardiff and first became known for playing Gary Preston in which BBC sitcom?

He and his twin sister broke the Welsh record for heaviest twins when they were born in 1978.

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

That left season two at 18 episodes. Two more episodes intended for a fourth Fox season aired as 'bonus episodes' in May 2018.

Tom Ellis really sings on the show, but which part of his musical performances is faked on screen?

He has said in interviews that the vocals are his but the piano accompaniment is not.

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

The show was renewed for a sixth and final season of ten episodes before the fifth had finished airing.

Where does Chloe Decker's backstory say she worked before joining the LAPD?

The show has fun with her one famous role, a teen movie with a hot-tub scene. Her late father was an LAPD officer.

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

The show makes her Cain's mother and Lucifer's ex, and she eventually pairs off with Maze.

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

It referred to the planet's morning appearances; the Greeks called it Phosphoros. Only later did Christian tradition apply the name 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.

How many episodes was Lucifer's first season on Fox?

Fox ordered 13 in May 2015 and gave season two a full 22-episode pickup, though four of those were later moved into season three.

Who directed the Lucifer pilot?

The Underworld director also shot pilots for Sleepy Hollow and Hawaii Five-0. The pilot debuted at Comic-Con in July 2015.

The joke 'Is it the Yakuza?', mocking the petition against the show, appears in which season-two episode?

Lucifer asks it when told he is in danger, then guesses the real threat: 'a bunch of moms'.

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

He stumbles into the role after getting caught up in a murder investigation in the pilot.

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

The producer behind CSI and Pirates of the Caribbean lent his banner to a show that Fox nonetheless axed after three seasons.

What do Rory's wings have instead of feathers?

They are one of the few things that can actually hurt Lucifer, which matters given why she has come looking for him.

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

Ella knew her only as 'Rae-Rae', never realising her imaginary friend was the Angel of Death and Lucifer's sister.

What was the Greek name for the morning star, meaning 'light-bringer'?

An alternative Greek name, Heosphoros, meant 'dawn-bringer'; both refer to the planet Venus seen before sunrise.

Why did the show's production move from Vancouver to California starting with season three?

Under the California Film Commission's 'Program 2.0' the show spent $92.1 million on production in the state.

In Roman myth, Lucifer the morning star was called the son of Cephalus and which dawn goddess?

Ovid's Metamorphoses has him marshalling the stars each dawn and leaving his station last.

Which Almost Human alumnus did Fox hire as Lucifer's showrunner, with Tom Kapinos stepping back?

Kapinos, who wrote the pilot, stayed on in a lesser capacity as the series developed its lighter procedural tone.

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

He invented a Masonic 'Palladium' and a fake author, Diana Vaughan, before publicly confessing to twelve years of fabrication.