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Vincent Le Mec is the final antagonist of the TV series Lucifer. He appears as a minor but pivotal antagonist in Season 5 and the main antagonist of Season 6. He is a ruthless French mercenary leader who was hired by the evil archangel Michael to locate and retrieve Amenadiel's necklace. He later returned to exact revenge on Lucifer Morningstar for purposefully whispering in his ear and causing his guilt to leave him in constant pain.
He was played by Rob Benedict.
What Makes Him A Scrappy?[]
- He's commonly regarded as the worst antagonist of the whole series, not helped by both being the direct successor of the much more beloved Michael and the final villain for the entire series.
- While the character is meant to be taked seriously, viewers were turned off by Rob Benedict's awkward performance of the character, particularly his very awful and distracting French accent thats sometimes seems to slip into Irish which lead to viewers to question why even cast him as French or just hire an actual French actor instead of taking this approach.
- While the character being the one who killed Daniel, one of the main characters could have lead to the character having some height into the narrative, this is completely ignored once he actually takes the stage as a main villain, with the focus instead going to the character having kidnapped Rory (a much polarizing character), the fact that Daniel already completed his character arc and went to Heaven when this finally happens means there's very little reason to despise the character anymore which many fans saw as a waste of the only villain that has managed to kill a main character in the whole series.
- His motivation is completely ridiculous and poorly explained. His reason to hate Lucifer is that he whispered something in his ear which caused his guilt to leave him in constant pain, yet is never explained exactly what he feels guilty of and that most of the time he doesn't seem to hate anything of what he's doing.
- The overall idea that Lucifer apparently trapped him in a living Hell Loop is confusing, considering is something that was never established to be able to happen and in the original episode it seemed like an ordinary case of people going mad from the revelation of Lucifer's true nature.
- Pretty much any reason he managed to become a threat to Lucifer in the last 2 episodes is either contrived at best or a very blatant Ass Pull at worst. Even worse is that his whole master plan was planned in less that 24 hours with lots of information he didn't know.
- He manages to escape out of prison because casually one of the guards forgot to lock his door during the chaos produced by one of the angels.
- When Vicent is about to rob a store, Dan's ghost trying his hardest to avert him to do it somehow managed to possess his body temporarily, this is despise the show has established for many seasons that Celestials and Demons can only possess bodies of people who recently died, making it very hard to buy that a regular human like Dan could be able to possess a body, much less of someone who's still alive (Lucifer even lampshades he has no idea how this happened). Even weirder is that this actually transfers some memories from Dan to Vicent, despise Charlotte Richards (a major character in Season 3) was possessed by the Goddess before and doesn't seem to remember anything.
- Also he somehow managed to get enough henchmen to help him with his plan in just a matter of hours despise all of his organization being either in prison of killed in his previous appearance, even if some of them managed to escape, the very small time window he had to make his plan makes hard to buy he could contact so many in so little time, not to mention to confront the same guy that killed all of their men like they were nothing and with a plan involving trying to kill the actual Devil makes one hard to believe so many people would buy it much less would loyally join to the cause.
- But easily the biggest one is the reveal that he somehow managed to kidnap Rory out of screen, The last time we saw Rory she was flying away (implied to be returning to his time) far from where Lucifer talked with Daniel one last time and Vicent was in a random park close to Chloe's other daughter, Trixie, who was a human and therefore a much easier to kidnap person related to Lucifer. Even if Rory went home instead, Dan was completely unaware where she was living so Vicent had no way of knowing how to find her. Vicent also had no way of knowing that shooting her elephant tranquilizers towards would put Rory to sleep, as Dan didn't know that and only applies to half-Celestials (something only Rory and Charlie are, one being a baby and the other one being recently introduced) meaning no character could have possibly know it would work and he had no way of knowing how she looked like. Even worse is that the way he managed to kidnaped her is never explained nor shown and serves as the cliffhanger of the second to last episode, most viewers were less shocked and more confused questioning the logistics behind such a feat.
- He also had no way of knowing that the feathers of Rory could be used as weapons against Lucifer, considering he's aware that he's the actual Devil and Rory never tried to attack Lucifer with them (at least seriously) much less with Dan present.
- The warehouse where the final battle happens also appears out of nowhere, he somehow has it vacated and ready despise being a minor criminal scumbag and it exists in a place where Lucifer and Chloe visited in a previous episode where nothing similar to that place appeared
- Despise all of the above, he stills ends up being an rather anti-climatic final villain for Lucifer, being defeated in barely a couple of minutes once he get the chance to face him and barely halfway throught the episode.
- The fact that he serves as the Climax of the entire story is also seen for many viewers as a letdown, not only because the last season's climax involved a war between Angels and Demons for who will rise as God but this season has being building towards many things that could have being more interesting climatic storylines including Chloe starting to get possessed by the power of the Dagger, a potential Apocalypse or Lucifer finally ascending as God all of which ended up being resolved in rather quick and disappointing ways in favour of the rather low-key conflict of a minor henchman managing to kidnap Lucifer's daughter which feels closer to a filler episode that a grand finale.
- Him being one of the three characters that were in Hell therapy in the last sequence made some viewers feel like it was a waste of an opportunity to see some older, more beloved characters again like Cain or Michael get some sort of redemption.
- Also the fact that his last scene is played for laughs feels cringeworthy after everything he has made in his previous three appearances and can make some viewers feel the show's philosophy was actually wrong and not everyone can truly get redemption.
- French-speaking fans also noted that his name literally means "the guy" making it harder to take him seriously.
Redeemable Aspects[]
- Despise all his flaws he did end up killing Daniel, being the only villain of the series that has managed to kill a main character.
- He was slightly intimidating in his short role back in Season 5, probably because he didn't talk too much that one time.
- Supernatural fans would probably enjoy of seeing Rob Benedict in another villainous role.
- The scenes where he's possessed by Daniel he loses his weird accent and his performance is much better (even if technically is not the same character.
- The scene where Daniel uses his body to make peace with Trixie, is considered one of the highlights of a rather mixedly-received season for being a very heartwarming moment that manages to close the arc of the character nicely.
Take That, Scrappy[]
- The final scene seems somewhat self-aware of how annoying he is, with Lucifer telling him he clearly needs more time in therapy before truly redeeming which even he agrees.
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