Lucifer (DC Comics) - Powers and Abilities

Powers and Abilities

Lucifer possesses incalculable power; he can shape the matter of Creation into anything he can imagine, including matter, energy, and more abstract concepts, such as time. However, he does have certain limitations. Simply put, he cannot create something out of nothing. He needs existing matter (and where that is unavailable, the Demiurgic power of the archangel Michael) to provide the foundation for him to shape. Only his brother Michael Demiurgos is his equal in power. However, in certain dimensions, he is powerless and his mobility is limited without his angelic wings. He may choose to temporarily abandon his powers (including immortality), and it is strongly suggested that even he could not survive if his heart were to be eaten by another character. In the story "Lilith", it is implied that his father could destroy him at his whim - which makes " sometimes WONDER why he hasn't dealt with ALREADY." He is never without the formidable resources of his brilliant intellect and his unbending will, however. Although Lucifer's overt exercises of power are limited in the books, if he is provoked to violence, his preference always seems to be to use fire as a weapon. His original role was "God's lamplighter" by using his unmatched will to condense clouds of hydrogen into star-masses, and setting them alight. As terrifying as they are brief, battles with Lucifer usually begin (and end) with him drawing down the flames of some superheated star and incinerating to ash anything in the immediate area. However, the true reasons why he favors light and fire are partly explained in the story "Lilith" (from "Lucifer: The Wolf Beneath the Tree").