User blog comment:SeraphLucifer/Discussion/@comment-1975828-20160121132100/@comment-3423279-20160121140359

there is a difference between being prideful and just being stupid, if Lucifer geniuinely thinks that he is all it takes to defeat The Darkness then he isn't gonna be around long.

I personally think that he was lying about Michael, as we didn't even see Adam's body in the Cage, nor his soul if he died.

So far of the people that can or could defeat The Darkness, Death and Raphael are dead, God is probably waiting for something, Lucifer is free to do whatever it is he will do and Michael and Gabriel are missing.

meanwhile The Darkness is rapidly regaining her strength and is now strong enough to kill angels with a wave of her hand easier than Michael could with his pyrokinesis, unless some powerful players come onto the board fast this isn't gonna go well.