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We unfortunately see people stating that Lucifer is a bad person fairly often in the fandom, but we really don't understand it.
Almost all of the evidence that people provide for this claim is them jumping to conclusions about things that haven't been elaborated on yet in the show. We feel like it's really unfair to assume that Lucifer is this horrible being based solely off of the little to no context we currently have.
First of all, it's entirely unknown if the hurtful thing Lucifer said to Charlie in the pilot has been carried over to the show and is still canon. For all we know, it could be a scrapped detail.
However, even if it does still end up being a plot point in the show later on, we highly, highly doubt that Lucifer would ever intentionally do anything to hurt Charlie. He's not a perfect father, but we could never see him deliberately being hurtful towards her.
The only plausible explanation we can think of as to why Lucifer would ever say anything of the sort is it being by accident. He is very awkward with his wording, and something he wanted to say to her may have come off the wrong way. Either that or it was a complete misunderstanding.
If it is revealed that he intended to hurt her, we will reject it as canon. That's just not the Lucifer that has been established. He loves Charlie so deeply, and wants her to be happy.
Yes, he didn't agree with her ideals, but even in episode 5 he never did or said anything malicious. He never even got angry with her. He did raise his voice occasionally, but never out of anger. It was only out of concern for his daughter.
His pridefulness also resulted in him bragging about his point about sinners being proven correct, but we think it's pretty obvious that he wasn't trying to be mean. He looked like he felt rather awful when Charlie expressed sadness over his response.
Lucifer would never purposely hurt her!
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Another thing that people hold against Lucifer is him giving Eve the Fruit of Knowledge and causing the creation of Hell. This just feels like such a bad faith argument.
How, in any universe, could Lucifer have assumed that his actions would have gone so poorly? How could he have possibly known that the consequences would be that dire?
Vivzie explained his actions as being "in defiance against an unjust system." Meaning that even back when Lucifer was an angel, and far before the exterminations, Heaven was still corrupt.
Lucifer saw his offering as a gift. He had nothing but pure intentions, and it backfired on him horribly.
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A terrible take that we unfortunately see is the idea that Lucifer cheated on Lilith to have a one-night stand with Eve. A concerning amount of people believe this to be true, and even the Hazbin Hotel wiki states it as a possibility.
This theory is based solely off of a one-off comment that Lucifer made towards Adam. A comment that was very clearly meant to not be taken seriously and was only said to rile Adam up.
We genuinely can not comprehend how this serves as concrete evidence to anyone that Lucifer cheated on his wife. People seriously think that Lucifer, the man who is never shown without his wedding ring and who cries at just the mere mention of Lilith, would ever even think about cheating?
To top it off, there's a scene in episode 7 of season 2 where Lucifer registers a comment from Vox as being vaguely sexual, and he immediately rejects the idea by stating that he's married.
And even if Lucifer somehow cheated, he would not be bragging about it. He would feel immense shame and guilt that would haunt him for the rest of his life.
Everything we've been presented with so far has suggested nothing but Lucifer being an incredibly loyal and devoted partner. He still loves Lilith after almost 8 years of hearing absolutely nothing from her, his official merch and descriptions like to hammer in the fact that he desperately misses her, and Viv has stated that she makes it a point to make sure that he is always wearing his ring.
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And lastly, the exterminations... Oh, boy.
This is by far the most common argument that we see against Lucifer, but it's entirely baseless.
Legitimately all we know about Lucifer's involvement is that he agreed to the annual exterminations for unknown reasons, and that he managed to convince the angels to make those born in Hell exempt from them. That's it. We have no context for anything.
Charlie assumes that he just agreed to them for no reason, but we believe that to be very unlikely.
We strongly doubt that he let the exterminations happen with no strings attached. Lucifer seemed to disagree with Vox's statement that he wants everyone in Hell to suffer forever. Though even if this line were to be shoved aside since it occurs after Charlie apparently changed his mind a little on sinners, letting straight up genocide happen just. Doesn't sound like him. Especially since he was aware of Lilith's goals.
He's never seemed like a violent person; he's usually passive. Even with Adam, he didn't seriously attempt to hurt him until he tried to attack him and his daughter a second time. It seemed like he was mostly just messing with him before then (aside from his first punch to make Adam release Charlie).
We just can't see him not having any reservations against yearly genocide. And why would Lucifer even want to work with Heaven or make a deal with them in the first place, after all they've done to him? It's clear that he doesn't like talking to them, as made evident in the very first episode when he requests Charlie to go to the meeting with Adam in his place.
We're convinced that they forced his hand in some way, most likely by threatening his family. We feel like that's the most likely possibility.
And in regards to Lucifer's hatred towards sinners, we honestly can't blame him at all.
While it isn't the best to generalize millions or billions of people, when you consider Lucifer's perspective, we feel like it makes complete sense. They abused his gift of free will, and now he is forced to eternally suffer for it. We think it's very understandable that he prefers to avoid them.
We feel like his views are supported by the fact that outside of the main cast, the show tends to focus on genuinely awful sinners (cannibals, killers, a cult leader, rapists, etc.) Hazbin doesn't really explore the sinners that got sent to Hell for more "innocent" (is that the right word?) reasons, such as suicide or not believing in God. Outside of Pentious, we guess. And even in his case, he was influenced by Hell's environment and also became violent.
What's tragic is that Lucifer did try to see good in sinners and help them in the past, but they always broke his trust. We feel like this is made clear by this quote to Charlie:
"Ya see, this is exactly what I'm talking about, Charlie. You build something nice, you invite people in and offer them everything, and they just bring violence and chaos to your doorstep. It doesn't matter how well-intentioned you are. They're always going to disappoint you."
Lucifer most likely spent years trying to see the best in sinners, especially with Lilith's ideals. But he just got hurt and disappointed over, and over, and over again.
Lucifer is doing his absolute best with the horrible hand he's been dealt, and we don't think people understand that. They provide him with very little empathy and are quick to jump to the absolute worst case scenarios.
We're guessing it's his title as the devil that makes people assume that he must be bad. That there are surely malicious intentions behind his every action. But Viv herself has stated that he is not a bad person, and she has all of the context of the story. If the creator herself feels this way about him, then we are inclined to believe her.
We're not claiming that Lucifer is flawless. He's definitely made mistakes, and we're sure that more will be revealed in the future. But sometimes it feels like people are actively looking for things to hate about him.
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