The way Hannibal always makes people formally ask him for help when he has manipulated them into doing murder (Abigail, Will, Bedelia) is so The Devil of him. It always feels like they’re signing a contract. I can help you, if you ask me. But only if you ask. It’s the darkest version of coersed consent and I love that nasty bitch for it
Honestly so many people gloss over the insane behind the scenes comments about parallels (or….smth) between Hannibal and Lucifer. Bryan Fuller calling him a “fallen angel” and a Lucifer allegory and talking about how Will’s holy to him, Mads Mikkelsen saying that he played the character as “a version of The Devil” and that he wasn’t acting to embody a psychopathic killer, he was acting to embody a sort of ambivalent god figure who finds joy and beauty in ways incomprehensible to us and shapes the world around him, and of course Hugh Dancy’s famous comment that he never elaborated on where he said that they survived and in his mind are “just chilling on a beach somewhere” because Hannibal “isn’t exactly mortal”. Like there’s just something about it all. Something’s just there yk
Abel Gideon: "He's the devil, Mr Graham, he is smoke."