The Sandman (TV Series)

A Hope in Hell (2022)

Gwendoline Christie: Lucifer Morningstar

Quotes 

• Lucifer Morningstar : I am... a dire wolf. Prey-stalking, lethal prowler.

  Dream : I am a hunter. Horse-mounted, wolf-stabbing.

  Lucifer Morningstar : I am a serpent. Horse-biting, poison-toothed.

  Dream : I am a bird of prey. Snake-devouring, talons ripping.

  Lucifer Morningstar : I am a butcher bacterium. Warm-life destroying.

  Dream : I am a world. Space-floating, life-nurturing.

  Lucifer Morningstar : I am a nova. All-exploding, planet-cremating.

  Dream : I am a universe. All things encompassing, all life embracing.

  Lucifer Morningstar : I am Anti-Life. The Beast of Judgement. The dark at the end of everything. What will you be then, Dream Lord?

  Dream : [collapses]  I... I... I...

  Matthew the Raven : Boss? Hey, boss!

  Lucifer Morningstar : Still with us, Dream?

  Matthew the Raven : He is. And it's his move, Your Majesty.

  Lucifer Morningstar : There are no more moves. What can survive the Anti-Life?

  Matthew the Raven : Hey, boss. Listen to me. You know what can survive the Anti-Life? You. Dreams don't fucking die. Not if you believe in them. And I believe Dream of the Endless would never leave his raven here, alone, in Hell with Lucifer.

  Dream : I... am... Hope.

  [stands up] 

  Lucifer Morningstar : Hope.

  Dream : Well, Lightbringer? It's your move. What is it that kills hope?

  Lucifer Morningstar : Choronzon, give him his helm.

• Dream : The Ruler of Hell is honorable, indeed. I will not forget this.

  Lucifer Morningstar : Honorable? You joke, surely. Look out there, Morpheus. The billion Lords of Hell stand arrayed about you. Tell us, why should we let you leave? Helmet or no, you have no power here. After all, what power have dreams in Hell?

  Dream : You say I have no power here. Perhaps you speak truly. But to say dreams have no power in Hell... Tell me, Lucifer Morningstar, what power would Hell have if those here imprisoned were not able to dream... of Heaven?

• Lucifer Morningstar : It surprises us how easily you would give up, Dream. We know how you relied upon your tools. But tools are the subtlest of traps. We become reliant upon them and in their absence we are vulnerable, weak, defenseless.