Mazikeen

Mazikeen of the Liling, better known by her nickname Maze, is a major character in the TV series .
She is a demon from Hell, the daughter of Lilith and former right-hand of Lucifer Morningstar. Over time, Maze became a bounty hunter and grew fond of living on Earth, especially alongside Linda Martin and Trixie Espinoza, even forming a relationship with Eve. However, she has on several occasions sided with individuals for her own benefit, including Marcus Pierce and Michael, which temporarily pitted her against her friends and allies.
She is portrayed by .
== Biography ==
=== Early Life ===
Mazikeen was a demon who existed thousands of years ago and was also one of the many Lilim born to Lilith, Adam's first wife and her mother. Lilith trained Mazikeen and her fellow Lilim siblings to be cold, ruthless and incapable of love so they could never be broken. Afterwards, she abandoned her children without saying goodbye, presumably disheartening Mazikeen. She and the other demons became ruthless, brutal and fierce torturers of Hell, where they learned the arts of torture by torturing Abel, the first soul in Hell who was murdered by his own brother Cain. Mazikeen, now more commonly known as "Maze," rose to become Hell's most skilled torturer that she eventually earned a place as the right-hand of Lucifer, the Sovereign of Hell. Under Lucifer's rule, she faithfully and loyally served him and tortured deceased human souls for him, and was even entrusted to completing his most crucial tasks. He also tasked her with torturing his mother Goddess after she was banished to Hell by God but had difficulties breaking her due to being celestial without a physical body, though she speculates that she couldn't find her weak spot.
=== Living on Earth ===
At some point in 2011, Lucifer arrived on Earth and was confronted by his brother Amenadiel to take him back. But when Amenadiel's necklace was stolen, Lucifer summoned Maze to torture the suspects and help Amenadiel find his locket. Afterwards, Lucifer decided to stay on Earth and retire from ruling Hell, against Amenadiel's demands. Maze stayed with Lucifer on Earth, feeling that she was bounded to follow him no matter what and cut off his angel wings for him so they wouldn't go back to Hell. Under his orders, she arranged his wings to be stored within a secret compartment inside a container, masked by a crate of Russian dolls. Eventually, Lucifer bought a building and renovated the main quarters into a nightclub which he named 'Lux,' hiring Maze as its manager and bartender, as well as his bodyguard and servant. Although she vowed to follow him, she was secretly unhappy with this new change and wanted to go home, hoping Lucifer would eventually change his mind.
=== Choosing a Side ===
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=== Finding Her Place ===
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=== Dealing with Goddess ===
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=== Bounty Hunting ===
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=== Crumbling Relationships ===
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=== Alliance with Cain/Marcus ===
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=== Meeting Eve ===
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=== Demon Attack ===
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=== Abandonment Issues ===
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=== Finding a Soulmate ===
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=== Battle against Michael ===
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== Personality ==
Maze is one of Hell’s most decorated torturers, inheriting a sadistic composure and sense of humor. She rather enjoys torturing humans, displaying excitement for whatever sadistic ideas Lucifer may have and was even turned on when he suggested torturing a Lucifer-wannabe. Her enjoyment towards pain points to her being a sadomasochist, where she is often seen enjoying the fell of pain and watching others being subjected to it. Unlike Lucifer who was bored with ruling Hell, she preferred her life in the underworld and was dissatisfied with Earth and whatever fascination he was with humans. However, after meeting and befriending both Linda and Trixie, she grew more relaxed with her time on Earth and chose to stay. Regardless of her initial disliking of humans, Maze was profoundly loyal to Lucifer and whatever decisions he makes whether or not she agrees with them, having left Hell to look after him and always nagging him for his own well-being.
In her initially appearances Maze was a ruthless bodyguard who fought for Lucifer on his orders and had demonstrated signs of jealousy, particularly of his interest in Chloe Decker. Upon learning that Chloe was making Lucifer vulnerable within proximity, she opted to kill her only for Lucifer to convince her otherwise. While she eventually warmed up to Chloe, she would continue to get jealous for various reasons such as Amenadiel and Linda developing a relationship. It is her jealousy that has often turned her against her friends and leaves wide open for truly selfish individuals to strike a deal with her for their own end, such as Pierce and Michael. However, she is capable of redemption after realizing that she was truly selfish and unfair to Linda and Trixie, both of whom she blamed for her own problems, and took every chance available to make amends with them both.
Maze is fiercely protective of her loved ones, going out of her way to protect Lucifer whenever his life was threatened, and after Chloe was nearly killed by Uriel due to Lucifer’s deal with God, she immediately opted for him to hand over Goddess. It is possible though that she mainly wanted him fulfill his end of the deal because she never liked Goddess and considered her far worse than Lucifer, never trusting her for a second. Her distrust had proven her correct after she found Linda bloodied in her office after Goddess tortured her, infuriating her and got desperate to try and get her to the hospital as soon as possible.
While Maze shows herself to be a fierce demon with a bad girl attitude, it is mainly a masquerade to hide a sense of her insecurity. In truth, she was alone and had no real friends until meeting Chloe, Trixie and Linda. She is fully capable of love and affection when she saved Amenadiel's life using Lucifer’s angel wing feather, despite it being a possible way back to Hell. Upon learning that Linda was pregnant, she became very protective and tried to be a good aunt figure for the child, teaming up with Lucifer, Amenadiel and Eve to save him from the demon Dromos. While initially being in love with Amenadiel, she also felling in love with Eve and grew frustrated about how she was oblivious to her affections and was more focused on getting Lucifer back, yelling at her to accept that Lucifer doesn’t love her.
Despite all of these good qualities and her loyalty to Lucifer, she was prone to betraying him for her own personal reasons. During their first few years on Earth, she consorted with Amenadiel to get him back to Hell out of fear for his safety. It was only when she realized how they were using her as pawns against each other that she refused to help them. But in a worst case, she became hypocritical and blamed Linda for being a bad friend because of her relationship with Amenadiel, despite the fact that she herself was the cause of their friendship’s collapse. It was this reason that she started hating her life on Earth, lashing out on Trixie and eventually teaming up with Pierce to get Lucifer to take him back to Hell.
After Eve left Los Angeles and Lucifer returned to Hell, Maze developed abandonment issues which stemmed from her fractured relationship with her mother Lilith, who never truly loved her or the other demons. She quickly overreacted when Linda revealed how she had to put her first child up for adoption when she was younger and became jealous of knowing that Lucifer and Chloe were soulmates. Feeling alone, she became desperate to find a soulmate of her own, now even temporarily resorting to teaming up with the egotistical Michael in exchange for a soul.
In an alternate universe created by God, Maze never emotionally evolved due to Lucifer never meeting and becoming partners with Chloe, and due to Trixie not existing in this universe to help draw out her more caring nature. Instead, she wears half a mask, to presumably hide her demon face, and is in charge of a cult. Although the cult appears to be human, as shown when she burns the mask on a woman's face, it is unknown where the group originated from or how her relations with humans have evolved from.
== Powers and Abilities ==
=== Powers ===
* Demon Physiology: As a demon, Maze is superior to humans, having supernatural powers. She is seemingly much stronger than other demons, however, she is not as powerful as Angels.
** Immortality: Maze doesn't age and has lived for thousands of years. Lucifer even explained that life in prison would be a mere timeout for her. However, demons do not have souls, so if she dies, she would be eradicated from existence. It is unclear though whether or not she can be killed, like other demons, by extreme mundane means, as she has never displayed any fear of mundane weaponry, indicating she is far more durable than the common demon, a fact further supported by the fact she can take punches from Lucifer without much problem, while other demons were taken down by one punch of his. She cannot die of old age and she can only be killed by celestial weapons, the Flaming Sword, demon daggers forged in Hell, angels, God and Goddess.
** Superhuman Durability: Maze is far more durable than humans. She can withstand an immense amount of physical damage, and weapons such as guns, knives, and tasers cause her little to no harm. Usually, she laughs at the idea that humans may hurt her, and after a punching duel with Lucifer, she was only moderately injured (while a single light punch of him is enough to knock a human unconscious and severely injure them), and could still walk, although it turns out that Lucifer was holding back a lot and despite being able to recover reasonably quickly from being palmed by him, another such attack, with Lucifer deciding to hurt her enough, effectively incapacitated her.
** Accelerated Healing Factor: Maze has shown to heal faster than humans, though still slower than angels. After her fight with Lucifer, she was shown to be already in a somewhat better condition after only several hours, however still in a worse condition than Lucifer.
** Superhuman Strength: Like all demons, Maze is much stronger than humans and animals. She can easily knock a human unconscious with a punch, and she can lift up large men by their necks very high off the ground with only one hand and shove them into a wall. She can break out of handcuffs with no effort, and she can single-handedly annihilate 12 large men in combat. While weaker than angels, she can still punch them hard enough to make them draw blood.
** Superhuman Speed: Maze can move far faster than humans and animals. In less than a minute, she went from being outside Linda's office to in her office which required her to leave the building and go through the window. Maze single-handedly destroyed a street gang in about a minute.
** Superhuman Reflexes: Maze has far greater reflexes than humans.
** Superhuman Agility: Maze is supernaturally agile and she is able to move incredibly quick very easily.
** Superhuman Senses: Maze has better senses than humans and animals. She also appears to have better senses than angels, as, multiple times, she was able to detect things Lucifer hasn't noticed.
** Size-Shifting: Maze is able to change her appearance into a form which reveals her face's demonic left side. Also, like all demons, Maze can change her physical form, although only if she is inside a hell loop.
** Telekinesis: Maze was able to summon her knife from a wall into her hand in order to fight Amenadiel. However, it is unknown if she can utilize this ability on any other object.
** Demonic Growling: Maze has supersonic growling and roaring which barks fiercely and very loudly, similarly to animals such as lions, bears and tigers. To frighten a misbehaving child, Maze perfectly imitated the sound of a vicious dog barking and growling.
** Demonic Possession: Because she is a demon, Maze can apparently possess any recently deceased human being. She hasn't demonstrated this since Lucifer had forbidden demonic possessions because "someone" in the Silver City complained about it.
=== Abilities ===
* Master Martial Artist: Maze is an expert in various types of martial arts and she is a highly-skilled fighter where she has shown to have brilliant armed and unarmed fighting skills. Though she was eventually defeated in her battle with the angel Uriel, she remained capable of fighting on equal terms with him for some time. She was even able to roughly stalemate and pummel Lucifer to a bloody pulp, although it must be noted she had beat on him before he wanted to fight back and he wasn't trying to hurt her too much. Maze can be very precise and surgical in her attacks, as noted by Lucifer when she targeted her opponents' weak spots, notably shattering a tibia, causing an orbital fracture, and once crushing a humerus.
** Expert Stick Fighter: While in a bar fight, Maze broke a wooden pool stick into two pieces and easily used them to defeat a large group of attacking men.
** Knifemanship: Maze has shown incredible fighting skill with demon knives when she fought Amenadiel, though she was still ultimately unable to defeat the angel. She was also capable of holding her own against Uriel for some time before she was deprived of her knives. When fighting Lucifer with her knives, Maze was able to temporarily pressure the reluctant Lucifer but was easily defeated when he had enough.
* Athletics: Maze is in far better shape and a far greater athlete than the finest athletes on Earth. She is an expert martial artist and a master in karate, boxing, muay thai, jiu Jitsu, kungfu, aikido, wrestling, judo, taekwondo, ninjutsu, eskrima, etc. She has the superhuman abilities to easily and effortlessly defeat multiple humans.
* High-Level Intellect: Maze is naturally more intelligent than the common humans, as witnessed she is capable of quickly understanding even situations she has never handled before. She also has a vast amount of knowledge, due to her age. To a small degree, Maze can even convince people to make a decision that they think is their own.
* Skilled Masseuse: Since Maze can find most of the pain points in a human's body, she can also relieve the tension in them, making her a great masseuse.
* Expert Tracker: Maze is an expert tracker, which is why Lucifer first brought her to Earth from Hell to help him track down the one who stole Amenadiel's necklace. This also the reason why she is so successful at her bounty hunting job.
* Bilingualism: Maze can speak her native language Lilim in addition to being fluent with speaking English.
=== Weaknesses ===
* Celestial Beings: Despite being a very powerful demon, Maze has proven herself to be outclassed by angels. Amenadiel, Lucifer, and Uriel have all proven themselves capable of defeating her. Once Lucifer stopped holding back and actually wanted to harm Maze, he was able to not only powerfully knock her down and stun her with a single light palm blow but the next time he did that, he incapacitated her. Even in a weakened state, Goddess was able to knock her out with a headbutt. Amenadiel was able to overpower Maze in hand-to-hand combat.
* Gods: God and Goddess can effortlessly kill and eradicate Maze and any other demon from existence.
* Flaming Sword: The Flaming Sword, even Azrael's blade on its own, can instantly eradicate Maze and any other demon from existence.
* Demon Daggers: Even though they're her weapon of choice, Maze's demon daggers can kill her easily like all other Celestial beings.
== Appearances ==
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== Trivia ==
* In the comics, Mazikeen is a Lilim, the child of Lilith, as well as a devoted ally and lover of Lucifer Morningstar. She has also been the war leader of the Lilim, a race of warriors descended from Lilith that have been exiled. Her original appearance showed the left half of her face to be horribly scarred and mutilated-looking. To her disfigurement from humans, she wore a white mask that covered half her face. This is referenced in the Season 3 episode "Once Upon a Time" which is set in an alternate reality, where she resembled her comic book counterpart by wearing a white mask which covered half her face.
* Throughout the entire series, Maze has worked with every season's main antagonist or anyone whose worked with main antagonists, betrayed Lucifer several times in the process.
** In Season 1, she helped Amenadiel try and get Lucifer back to Hell so she could return too.
** In Season 2, she worked with Goddess very briefly.
** In Season 3, she agreed to help Marcus Pierce kill him and blaming Lucifer for it so she could return to Hell.
** In Season 4, while she didn't work with Father Kinley, she did help Eve break him out of custody which led to the demons being summoned.
** In Season 5, she worked with Michael to attain a soul for herself.
* Her native language Lilim is in fact Afrikaans on behalf of the actress Lesley Ann-Brandt, who is fluent with the language.
* In Hebrew mythology, the name Mazikeen refers to a variety of minor demons.
* The name "Mazikeen" is an Anglicized variation of a Hebrew name, Mazikin, meaning “those who do harm.” In Jewish mythology, Mazikin are invisible demons that cause annoyances or dangers.
* Lina Esco was originally cast as Mazikeen in the pilot before later getting recast with Lesley Ann-Brandt.
* Maze was mentioned in the Arrowverse crossover event Crisis on Infinite Earths, where Lucifer told John Constantine that he owed him a debt for helping her out. It is unclear what Constantine helped her out with.
== See Also: ==
* Mazikeen on Villains Wiki
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