# Good Guy Lucifer Good Guy Lucifer is an advice animal image macro that pictures the biblical devil as a suited man with angel wings sipping a martini. The format started on Reddit's r/atheism in October 2011 and spread through Tumblr, Quickmeme, and blog aggregators, using captions that reframe biblical scenes to make Lucifer look decent. ## Origin The first Good Guy Lucifer image macro was posted to r/atheism on October 23, 2011[2]. That same day, the LOL God blog featured the picture, pushing the format beyond the atheism subreddit and into wider circulation online[3]. - **Platform:** Reddit (r/atheism) - **Creator:** Unknown - **Date:** 2011 ## Overview Good Guy Lucifer is an advice animal image macro featuring a suited man with angel wings sipping a martini, presented as a friendlier version of the biblical devil[3]. Captions typically pick a moment from scripture and reframe Lucifer's actions as fair, generous, or thoughtful rather than evil. Instead of horns, flames, and fury, the joke gives Christianity's arch-villain a cocktail lounge treatment. The humor leans on passages like Isaiah 14:12-15, where Lucifer is called a 'morning star' cast down from heaven[1]. The image itself is not custom art: it is Christopher Moeller's cover for issue 16 of Mike Carey's DC Comics series 'Lucifer'[3]. Atheist and skeptic communities on Reddit used the format to argue that a straightforward reading of the Bible actually makes Lucifer look decent, and the joke stuck as a way to poke at literal scriptural readings[2]. ## How It Spread Within a week of that first Reddit post, the format hit the podcast An American Atheist and appeared on aggregators including BuzzFeed and Ranker[4]. It jumped from r/atheism into r/adviceanimals, where the broader Reddit meme audience picked it up, and it gained real traction on Tumblr, where users kept adding new captions built around biblical trivia[2]. By November 1, 2011, a dedicated Quickmeme page for the format had gathered 181 Good Guy Lucifer submissions in barely more than a week[5]. Ranker also compiled a ranked list of the best entries from the format's early run[4]. ## How to Use Templates typically layer white top and bottom text over the martini image in the classic advice animal Impact-font style[5]. A common setup starts with a biblical action attributed to Lucifer, often paraphrased from Isaiah 14 or elsewhere in the Old Testament, and ends with a punchline that reframes the action as reasonable or kind[1]. ## Frequently Asked Questions ### What is Good Guy Lucifer? Good Guy Lucifer is an advice animal image macro of a suited, wing-wearing man drinking a martini, captioned with biblical scenes that make the fallen angel look kind or fair[4]. ### Where did Good Guy Lucifer come from? The first Good Guy Lucifer macro was posted to Reddit's r/atheism community on October 23, 2011[2]. ### What does Good Guy Lucifer mean? The joke reframes scripture, often drawing from passages like Isaiah 14:12-15, so that Lucifer's actions read as fair or generous rather than evil[1]. ### How do you use Good Guy Lucifer? Users add top and bottom text to the martini image, starting with a Bible-linked setup and ending with a punchline that makes Lucifer look decent, in the classic advice animal Impact-font style[5]. ### Is Good Guy Lucifer still popular? The format peaked in late 2011, with 181 submissions on Quickmeme by November 1, 2011, and is now treated as a classic 2010s advice animal rather than actively viral[5]. ## References 1. [https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Isa.14.12-Isa.14.15&version=NIV]() 2. [https://www.reddit.com/r/atheism/]() 3. [https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/good-guy-lucifer]() 4. [https://www.ranker.com/list/the-very-best-of-the-good-guy-lucifer-meme]() 5. [https://www.quickmeme.com/Good-Guy-Lucifer]() --- Source: https://meme.com/memes/good-guy-lucifer Published by meme.com — The Internet Meme Library