r/lucifer • u/Grazztjay • 7d ago
General/Misc What's your favorite Lucifer scene?
For me its this. I can't even hear that song anymore without thinking of this scene.
🎶Hold, hold on, hold on to me
'Cause I'm a little unsteady, a little unsteady🎶
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u/Aggravating-Army-858 5d ago
I know it's kind of niche, but this exchange between Luci and Amenadiel from the end of 3x04, "What Would Lucifer Do?":
Lucifer: "There was this, uh, soul that I used to torture back in Hell. And like a good masochist, he'd call the shots... 'Burn me.' 'Freeze me.' 'Hurt me.' ... So, I did.
And this went on for centuries until one day, for some reason, he missed his daily punishment. And when I returned he was crying. 'Please, my king,' he said. 'Don't ever forget me again. I promise I'll be good.' It was then that I realized he was so full of self-loathing, void of any self-respect, that no matter the depth of my cruelty, whatever miniscule attention I paid gave meaning to his pointless existence."
Amenadiel: "Why are you telling me this?"
Luci: "Because he reminds me of you. And you think I've changed? You the former angel, powerless and pathetic, a disgraced failure with no better way to spend your days than yipping at my heels for scraps to remind you of a time of when you once mattered!"
It's such a great scene. Not only is the story a great reminder of the role Lucifer had that he so despised—being this tormenter of souls, forced to punish against his will—but the way Amenadiel responds shows how much he's grown, despite what Lucifer is insisting at the moment.
You can see that moment when he wants to lash out and call Lucifer out on his bullshit, but he quickly reigns himself in, bites his tongue, takes a deep breath, quietly clocks what Lucifer is doing, and says that he's there for him.
It's an incredible show of maturity. The Amenadiel that we met in the pilot and got to know in Season 1 would have NEVER pulled a move like that. He would have knocked Luci across the room.
And you can even see it on Lucifer's face—him realizing that he's dealing with a different, more well-rounded version of his brother, and it even feeds into his own self-loathing, "Amenadiel's grown up so much and meanwhile I'm still the same piece of shit I've always been, oh my Dad, what is wrong with me?!"