Lucifer's Wings are the Angel Wings of Lucifer Morningstar. Lucifer had Maze cut the wings off when he abdicated his throne and settled in LA, and he later destroyed them. At the end of season 2, however, the wings were restored to him due to Lucifer's new emotional state.
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Lucifer retained his wings, even after his fall from grace. However, when he and Maze abandoned Hell, for Los Angeles, he had Maze amputate his wings as a gesture of ultimate defiance of God which he called flipping his Father the bird.
Lucifer then stored the wings in a secret compartment in his shipping container. In "Favorite Son", the container was stolen by Renny who killed a warehouse guard in the process. Lucifer eventually retrieved the container, but didn't find the wings inside.
In "Wingman", Lucifer discovers the wings were put in an auction run by Carmen Grant where Chloe is struck by how beautiful they are; on closer inspection, however, they proved to be fake. Once he tracked down Grant, he discovered the con man had kept the real ones, mounting them on a wall "like a decorative stag's head." Lucifer rather forcefully pointed out they were his, and took them back.
After understanding what the wings stood for, Lucifer burnt them in front of Amenadiel, as the angel was the one that had tipped Grant off to steal the wings, in an attempt to encourage him to go back to Hell.
Unknown to Lucifer, Maze kept a small feather fallen from his wings. When Amenadiel was dying from a wound inflicted by a Hell forged blade, with no hope of survival, Maze revealed the feather to him and used it to heal the wound.
In "The Good, the Bad and the Crispy", after being knocked unconscious, Lucifer awakens in the desert with his wings restored.
In "They're Back, Aren't They?", Lucifer attempts to solve the mystery of the return of his wings. While Amenadiel thinks that God restored Lucifer's wings as a sign of forgiveness, Lucifer decides God isn't behind it. Instead, after learning of the Sinnerman, Lucifer thinks that "something darker" is behind the return of his wings. Lucifer also discovers that along with regaining his wings, he has lost his "devil face." In a fit of pique, Lucifer then cuts off his wings, and leaves them in his dressing room where they are found by Amenadiel. The wings were quite tenacious, however, growing back each time he cut them off, until he decides it was too exhausting to keep doing so.
In "All About Her", after discovering that Marcus Pierce is, in fact, Cain, Lucifer theorizes that God restored his wings to make him stop Pierce from defying God's will. As he said God has screwed them both over, Lucifer offers to help Pierce defy God by finding a way for Pierce to permanently die.
In "Infernal Guinea Pig", Lucifer uses his wings to fly to Hell, retrieve the soul of Abel and resurrect Abel in the body of a young woman.
In "A Devil of My Word", Lucifer suggests that the return of his wings and the disappearance of his "devil face" are related to his emotional state, as was first theorized by Amenadiel. Lucifer suggests that his wings returned because for the first time in a long time he felt good about himself and that he deserved them back.
When Pierce's men later open fire on him and Chloe, Lucifer uses his wings to shield them. The wings take damage, becoming bloody, because of Chloe's presence, but Lucifer is able to fly Chloe to the roof. Returning to the room with Pierce, Lucifer uses his wings as weapons in battle, attacking and defeating Pierce's men with their aid. After he's alone with Pierce, Lucifer painfully furls his injured wings away again.
During season 4, after Lucifer begins living with Eve and falling back in his old ways, his wings take on a more bat like look, matching with Lucifer's change into his more demonic "King of Hell" form due to the realization that he hates himself. Lucifer doesn't realize this until "Devil Is as Devil Does", having not checked his wings since he got his devil face back in fear of what he might find.
At the end of "Who's da New King of Hell?", Lucifer's wings regain their original angelic look after Chloe tells him that she loves him and doesn't want him to go. Lucifer chooses to return to Hell in order to protect those he loves, the wings changing back apparently in response to Lucifer's more selfless and self-sacrificing mentality as well as Chloe's full acceptance of who and what he is. Lucifer then uses his wings to return to Hell so that he can rule there once more and keep the demons in line. Following this, Lucifer's wings retain their original angelic appearance.
In "Is This Really How It's Going To End?!", Lucifer uses his wings to fly to Caleb Mayfield's grave after the murder of Dan Espinoza.
In "A Chance at a Happy Ending", Lucifer uses his wings to battle Michael in midair. After Michael kills Chloe, Lucifer flies to Heaven where Lilith's immortality that he had kept inside of his ring shields him from destruction due to breaking his banishment. However, he arrives in the form of a meteor and his crash creates a crater. By giving Chloe the last of the power in his ring, Lucifer is able to resurrect her while his broken banishment results in Lucifer's apparent destruction. When Lucifer returns as the new God shortly thereafter, he descends from the sky and furls his wings away once he lands.
In "Save the Devil, Save the World", when Lucifer attempts to ascend to the throne in the Silver City, his wings refuse to unfurl. Chloe suggests that he's self-actualizing with everything that's going on and that his wings aren't coming out because Lucifer doesn't feel ready to become God. In Linda's fake ending to her manuscript, after deciding that he's ready to become God, Lucifer is able to extend his wings and take off in front of Linda, flying into Heaven. After learning that Lucifer purposefully made himself vulnerable so that he could be shot by Rory, Linda realizes that his conscious and subconscious minds are finally acting in concert, making Lucifer realize that he no longer has to let his wings choose whether or not he's going to be God. Lucifer is then able to extend his wings when he tries to again. Choosing not to become God even though he's finally ready to be, Lucifer furls his wings.
In "Partners 'Til the End", Lucifer briefly uses his wings while battling with Vincent Le Mec's men.