It is 100% not the same character. Like, not even close. Entertaining in its own way! But way more someone heard "the devil quits hell and moves to Los Angeles" and stopped listening because they had a GREAT idea for how that would go.
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I don't think this is a completely uniquely American cultural trait but it's one that you really notice a lot in American media I would compare it to Imperial China, surprisingly, being the culture that pioneered the mystery genre
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Much ink has been spilled about the gong'an (公案) genre -- literally the "public case" genre -- which evolved from nonfiction accounts of real bizarre legal cases (i.e. the "true crime" genre) into fiction spinning out a magistrate's investigation and resolution of a mystery
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This is weird to realize with Lucifer because he's got this almost informed trait of being a wheeler-dealer who connects people to the things that they want, using almost no supernatural powers, and *that* could be its own "case" every week. Instead it only comes up incidentally.
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And now I'm remembering the twice-done Cupid series that tried to do something like this, with a maybe-delusional-man/maybe-exiled-to-earth Eros trying to set people up with their soulmates.
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