In recent weeks, several friends have sent a private message to Xiao Cai, asking Xiao Calamity to introduce Lucifer in DC.
In fact, Little Scourge has introduced Lucifer in many articles, and has also written articles about Lucifer. It's been too long to remember the content, and I'm too lazy to look for it.
Today's Little Disaster will talk about Lucifer, Lucifer of the DC Universe was created by the famous screenwriter Neil Gaiman, is a supporting role in the comic "Nebuta" V2, and derived his own personal comic "Lucifer".
There are many bugs in the description of Lucifer, and they vary greatly from time to time.
Lucifer of the vertigo universe
In the manga "Nebuta" V2, Lucifer is an archangel created by God, who rebelled against God 3 seconds after God's creation and was banished by God into the void known as "Chaoplasm". This space eventually turned into a vast expanse of desolation and barrenness, known as hell.
It is important to note that Lucifer never shaped the physical form of hell, which evolved around Lucifer on its own.
Hell became the destination for dead souls, and Lucifer ruled Hell for 1 billion years.
This history in "Nebuta" V2 clearly conflicts with the history of hell in the comic book "John Constantine, Detective Hell". In " John Constantine , Detective of Hell " , it is described that the original ruler of hell was the fallen angel "The First Fallen", followed by the "Two Fallens" and "Three Fallens", the First Fallen shared the dominion of Hell, and Hell began the rule of the Trinity. Until the fourth fallen angel appeared, that is, Lucifer, who wrested the rule of hell from the first fallen.
During the big event "Crisis on Infinite Earths", the Great Darkness is summoned by the cult to attack the heavens, but the swamp monster and other heroes stop it, God stretches out his hand and shakes the hand of the Great Darkness, and the light and darkness reach a harmonious unity.
Lucifer shares power with the demons Azazel and Beelzebub and begins the reign of the Trinity.
The Endless Nebuta arrives in Hell in search of his lost helmet. After the Nebuta finds the helmet, Lucifer decides to imprison the Nebuta in Hell. Nebuta taunted Lucifer: "If people imprisoned in hell can't dream of heaven, then what power will hell have?" Then, the Nebuta left.
Lucifer is tired of reigning over hell and mortal prejudices against demons, and he reigns forever in hell only because he has rebelled against God.
Lucifer drove all beings from hell out of hell, locked the gates of hell, and then gave the key to the gates of hell to the sleeping devil and left hell.
The gods of various mythological systems have come to the realm of the sleeping devil, wanting to obtain the key to the gates of hell and become the rulers of hell. In the end, the Nebuta gave the keys to the Angel Duma and Remir.
Lucifer left hell and came to Earth, opening a bar called "Lux" in Los Angeles, California.
The core of Lucifer's vertigo universe revolves around free will. Lucifer represents the will of the individual, and he wants to challenge the "tyranny of fate," which in heaven's view is blasphemous. But all of Lucifer's sins and curses were pre-planned by God. Lucifer rejected God's rule and morality, which he considered tyrannical and unjust.
The violence, aggression, totalitarianism, and dictatorship of Heaven's rule are represented by the angel Amenadiel, who hates Lucifer in particular, leading the attack on Lucifer, ignoring those who are innocently implicated and even thinking that they should be proud of being hurt, and Lucifer despises Amenadiel very much. Ironically, it is often difficult to distinguish which of Lucifer's actions were predetermined by God and which were acted by Lucifer at his own free will.
Lucifer was so powerful that he and his brother Michael the Archangel had half the power of God. He can create and shape anything he can imagine, but He is still God's creation, and He cannot create something out of nothing, but can only create on the basis of existing matter. Only Michael, who possessed the power of creation, and the Great Craftsman Creator could create new substances.
So after Lucifer rescued Elaine and the imprisoned and tormented Michael from the fallen angel Sandrwind, he took Michael to the void without matter, killed Michael with a sword, and created a universe using the creative power released by Michael when he died.
Lucifer also created the universe to prove to God that he could be subject to God's will.
Lucifer is not invincible, in the comics he was killed by Basanos, a living tarot card created by Seraf Melios, and it was Elaine who resurrected Lucifer in exchange for his own life.
But the Nebuta also once said that Lucifer is the most powerful and that only the Creator (God) can defeat Lucifer.
In the 2006 comic strip Lucifer #75 (final issue), Lucifer scoffs at God's proposal, and Lucifer leaves the universe and flies into the uncertain void in search of the ultimate expression of his will to defy it.
Lucifer of the New 52 Universe
In 2011, DC launched the big event "Flash Point" to restart the universe, integrating the Vertigo Universe, Wildstorm Universe and DC Universe into one to form the New 52 Universe.
Lucifer of the new 52 universe is far less powerful than Lucifer of the vertigo universe. Lucifer of the New 52 universe is closer to Lucifer in Christian theology, where he is portrayed as a vicious and cunning fallen angel, ruler of hell, trying to obtain the soul of humanity. The beings of hell feared Lucifer and served Lucifer like a king.
Lucifer notices that the demon Etrigen is trying to take power, killing many powerful demons.
Just as Lucifer was thinking about what to do with Ettrigan, the magician Merlin approached Lucifer and made a deal with Lucifer, who brought Egan to Earth to fight Jason. Brow ties together and guards Camelot.
In the comic book "I, Vampire..."#19中, Cain is defeated, and Lucifer immediately drags Cain into hell.
In the 2018 manga Demon: Hell is Earth, after countless attempts, the demon Belia finally defeated Lucifer with the help of Merlin, put Lucifer in a cage, and became the ruler of Hell himself.
Beria wants to turn the entire planet into hell. Merlin gave the demon Etrigan the power and drew Excalibur from his body, and Etrigan used Excalibur to kill Lucifer and Beria, who were turned into hell dogs by Beria.
Eventually, Etrigan became the King of Hell.
Lucifer of the new 52 universe is obviously far less powerful than Lucifer of the vertigo universe.
Lucifer in Lucifer V2
At the beginning of 2016, DC launched a comic "Lucifer" V2#, which was at the end of the new 52, in terms of continuity, this comic completely ignored the setting of the new 52 universe Lucifer, and the story continued the comic "Lucifer" of the vertigo universe.
The story depicts God being killed, pointing the finger at Lucifer, and Gabriel and other angels believe that only Lucifer has the motive and opportunity to kill God.
In order to prove his innocence, Lucifer set out to investigate the truth about God's murder.
And after God was killed, a black god was born from a cocoon that exuded the breath of God.
In the end, with the help of Elaine and others, Lucifer unloaded the Black God in eight pieces and sealed it.
The manga is not long, only 19 issues, and the story is not very good. The most important thing is that the continuity of this comic was subsequently denied by DC.
Lucifer "after being born again"
In 2018, DC launched the comic strip Lucifer V3, which completely negated the new 52 universe and Lucifer in Lucifer V2.
Lucifer was one of God's first created angels, an archangel. As a result, Lucifer betrayed God and started the Heavenly War, in which Lucifer was defeated by his brother Michael and banished to hell.
Nine days after his banishment, Lucifer came to hell, which was empty and only Lucifer and the fallen angels he led.
Later, humans began to appear, drawn to hell by their guilt. Lucifer had never been so close to humans, and he began experimenting on humans to understand the creation of God the Father, experiments that were the earliest forms of torture in hell.
Lucifer turned into a serpent and lured Eve into eating the fruit of the tree of knowledge in the Garden of Eden, and Eve shared some with Adam, leading God to expel Adam and Eve from the Garden of Eden.
This version of Lucifer is very powerful, almost as powerful as Lucifer in the Vertigo universe, with almost the same setting, and is one of the most powerful beings in the multiverse.
In the early days of Lucifer's reign in Hell, Odin, the Norse Father, led a group of hunters into Hell for a mythical hunt to hunt the gods.
Lucifer spotted the group of hunters, appeared in front of them, and warned them. Frightened, Odin apologizes for stepping into Lucifer's territory and promises Lucifer to spread Lucifer's mythology to his followers in exchange for Lucifer's empowerment.
But Lucifer rejected Odin because he did not seek admirers. Odin explained that this was a respect between kings.
Odin's conditions were not enough for Lucifer, and he asked Odin to add one more to the conditions, that is, to invite himself on the next hunt.
On the next hunt, Odin invites Lucifer, who easily hunts a god, and he asks Odin what to hunt next. Odin tells Lucifer that the gods will be reborn at some point.
Lucifer was completely unacceptable, and he killed the gods again and again until the essence of the gods disappeared completely.
The story is the same as in the Vertigo universe, Lucifer is tired of the life that has ruled hell for hundreds of millions of years, and he allows the Endless Nedemon to cut off his wings and come to Earth to open the Lux Bar.
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Lucifer was created by Neil Gaiman, who asked the painter to design Lucifer according to the shape of the famous British rock singer David Bowie.
Born in London in 1947, David Bowie released 23 albums in his lifetime, won numerous awards, was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1996, received the French Order of Arts and Letters in 1999, and became an honorary doctorate of the Berklee College of Music. He received a Grammy Award for Lifetime Achievement in 2006.
David Bowie died of liver cancer in 2016 at the age of 69. In the same year, he won the Brit Music Award "Brit Idol Award". A year after his death, his posthumous work Black Star won five Grammy Awards.
In the 2023 DC event "Dark Crisis", the great darkness has been transformed into the Upside Down Man, the Three Houses, the Void Hand and Lucifer talks with Constantine, and the last great darkness transforms into Lucifer saying "I love Bowie" to Constantine, which is a tribute to Lucifer's creative prototype David Bowie.
And John Constantine was created by the famous screenwriter Alan Moore, and his creation was based on Sting, another famous British rock musician and the lead singer of the police band.
The above is the basic situation about Lucifer in the DC universe, because I have written too much content about Lucifer, so here is a brief introduction.