Lucifer Morningstar's Entire Backstory Explained

Lucifer is the show that just can't stay dead, having been brought back from the brink twice. But the Devil you know has a lot more lurking in his backstory than you see on his TV show. We're here to break down Lucifer's long and complex history.

Myth-obsessed writer Neil Gaiman took a history of mythic fiction and ran with it in his legendary Sandman series, which maps out a whole cosmos for Dream, its brooding protagonist, to travel. As one of the Endless - immortal anthropomorphic embodiments of concepts like destruction and desire - Dream moves through the world of myths and gods as easily as our own mortal plane. At some point, he ends up in Hell, where readers first encounter Lucifer, ruling over his realm of eternal torment.

Sandman's take on Lucifer pulls heavily from John Milton's Paradise Lost. The first major character introduced in the epic poem, Lucifer is a fallen angel who rebelled against God, deciding that he would rather, quote, "reign in Hell than serve in Heaven." Milton's work follows a defeated Satan's plan to corrupt mankind in another attempt to get one over on God. Sandman borrows the charisma and tragedy of this take, but moves away from any direct relation to man. This Lucifer Morningstar is concerned with himself and his nemesis above all else. He does fairly little in regard to corrupting the souls of humanity. At one point, a damned human points out that his title, "Lord of Lies," is a bit overblown, and that Lucifer doesn't take an active role in guiding people to Hell, saying:

"He doesn't lie at all. He tells you the exact, literal truth. And he lets you find your own way to Hell."

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The Sandman and Paradise Lost | 0:00
Unhappy in Hell | 1:39
Handing over the keys | 2:35
Lucifer's life on Earth | 3:39
Unable to escape | 4:45
Heading out | 5:41
One final rejection | 6:33
A real whodunnit | 7:32
On-screen | 8:37

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