10 Times The Lucifer Show Referenced The Comics (And 10 Ways It Totally Ignored Them)

The show's most glaring departure from the source material is simply its basic premise.

The TV series is centered around the high concept idea of the devil leaving Hell and assisting the LAPD with solving murders in a serialized buddy cop sitcom, while the comic series is a low concept mythological saga that deals with apotheosis and deicide, nihilism, and the creation and potential destruction of all reality.

A typical episode of the show will revolve around Lucifer trying to impress his police partner while helping to solve a new homicide, and a typical issue of the comic series will feature Lucifer dealing with the consequences and dangers of his ongoing war against Heaven and other celestial forces.

It's hard to imagine a hypothetical series that would be more dissimilar to the Lucifer comics than a quirky police procedural in which the devil hunts down and punishes a different murderer each weak, but somehow that's exactly what the live action adaptation ended up being.