Talk:Lucifer/@comment-26694545-20160910133721/@comment-7095057-20160916172250

Basically what Sage said.

Lucifier's interpretation in the Shin Megami tensei games is also never quite evil. He's never depicted as evil, and Shin Megami Tensei is pretty clear throughout the series that good and evil aren't so black and white. This is signified by several opponents you fight in the series being Angels (Mastema, Gabriel, Raphiel and the Seraph to name a few), who view mankind's will and ability to defy the gods through their own actions as a threat and problem.

The games themselves even go even further with the alignments, which are taken to extremes. I won't go into them too much as it spoils most endings of the games by doing that. But Lucifier is the main proponent of Chaos.

Chaos is in a sense, free will. It prioritizes free thought, free actions, free choice, and these are absolute. Thus laws are ignored, and it's largely a "survival of the fittest" alignment. By that logic, Lucificer isn't evil. In some cases he may be seen as actually a rather good figure.