#fun fact; the serpent Hugo van der Goes' painting apparently has a hairstyle that was common amongst sex workers of the time and region

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Irate critics of The Sandman 2022: How dare they cast Gwendoline Christie as Lucifer Morningstar?!?!?! The Devil can't be played by a woman!!!!!!

Me, looking at all the medieval and early Renaissance illustrations that depict the serpent who tempts Eve with a woman's head:

A serpent with a woman's head lurks in the Tree of Knowledge above Adam and Eve. Chromolithograph after Masolino. Masolino, da Panicale, 1383-1440?

Michelangelo, Fall and Expulsion from Garden of Eden

Vienna Diptych or the Fall and Redemption of Man by Hugo van der Goes

Irate (and knowledgeable) critics of The Sandman 2022: That doesn't count, Satan wasn't popularly conflated with the serpent in the Garden of Eden until John Milton's Paradise Lost!!!!!!

Me: Oh. Yeah, you're right; fair enough.

Irate critics of The Sandman 2022: *bask in their righteousness*

Me: In which case, Lucifer should look like this:

William Blake, Satan in his Original Glory: ‘Thou wast Perfect till Iniquity was Found in Thee’ c. 1805

Me: I'd say Gwen fits the bill pretty nicely.

Irate critics of The Sandman 2022: Wait, that's not what we-

Me: And, what do you know? This version of Lucifer also doesn't have a penis!!!