Good Omens/Characters

Characters that appear in Good Omens. Warning, spoilers abound!!! Also Loads and Loads of Characters.

Aziraphale
The angel who guarded the gates of Eden with a flaming sword, Aziraphale has lived among humans for thousands of years, and has become quite fond of them as a result. Due to his friendship with Crowley, he's not quite as pure-hearted as he should be.
 * Ambiguously Gay / Mistaken for Gay: It's stated that pretty much everyone's first impression of Aziraphale, among other things, is that he's "gayer than a treeful of monkeys on nitrous oxide". Him hanging around with Crowley all the time certainlly doesn't help.
 * Angelic Possession
 * Asexuality: The way it's phrased is a little ambiguous, but the implication is that being sexless unless he really wants to make an effort means he doesn't normally have a sex drive or the parts to act on it with.
 * Back-to-Back Badasses: With Crowley.
 * Badass Bookworm
 * Batman Can Breathe in Space
 * Being Good Sucks
 * Beware the Nice Ones: See Mugging the Monster below.
 * Care Bear Stare
 * Collector of the Strange: Bibles with interesting misprints.
 * Cosmic Plaything
 * The Empath: Aziraphale when they're trying to find The Antichrist is puzzled when he doesn't detect any evil in the area; the only thing he senses is pure love.
 * Energy Beings
 * Flaming Sword
 * Friendly Enemy: With Crowley.
 * Friend to All Living Things
 * Go Karting With Bowser
 * Going Native
 * Good Is Not Nice
 * Gosh Darn It to Heck
 * Healing Hands: "Lord, heal this bike."
 * Heterosexual Life Partners: With Crowley.
 * Ho Yay / Foe Yay: With Crowley again.
 * I Can't Dance: The only dance he knows is the gavotte.
 * Knight in Sour Armor
 * Let's Get Dangerous: Two Words: Flaming Sword. "Once you learn, you never really forget how." Aziraphale's Crowning Moment of Awesome.
 * Light Is Not Good: See Not So Different
 * Magicians Are Wizards
 * Mind Over Matter
 * Memetic Outfit: A large chunk of the fandom seems to agree that Aziraphale wears argyle sweater vests and/or tartan. There are also some who give him glasses in fanworks, although this hasn't been mentioned at all in the book.
 * Mugging the Monster: Members of The Mafia that threaten his bookstore tend to mysteriously disappear.
 * Mundane Utility
 * Murder Is the Best Solution: Maybe. "Wouldn't it be better to just..."
 * National Stereotypes: the posh British gentleman.
 * No Biological Sex: Angels are sexless unless they feel like making an effort. He's male for all intents and purposes, though.
 * Odd Couple: with Crowley.
 * One-Winged Angel
 * Our Angels Are Different
 * The Philosopher
 * Playing With Fire: Aziraphale makes a traffic ticket spontaneously combust.
 * Punch Clock Angel
 * Real Name As an Alias / Steven Ulysses Perhero / Sue Donym
 * Really Seven Hundred Years Old
 * Samaritan Syndrome: Comes with being an angel.
 * Screw Destiny
 * Staying Alive
 * Sweet Tooth
 * Telepathy
 * Teleporters and Transporters
 * Tempting Fate: "It's over, don't you think?"
 * Time Abyss / Fish Out of Temporal Water: Aziraphale hasn't updated his wardrobe since the 50s.
 * Winds of Destiny Change: Miraculous near escapes work like this.
 * Wing Pull: When preparing for the final battle.
 * Winds of Destiny Change: Miraculous near escapes work like this.
 * Wing Pull: When preparing for the final battle.

Crowley
Crowley was the Serpent who tempted Eve in the Garden of Eden. Having lived on Earth for past six thousand years, he's become rather fond of humanity. His friendship with Aziraphale means he's not quite as evil as a demon should be, though he was never very evil to begin with.
 * The Ace
 * Back-to-Back Badasses: with Aziraphale
 * Badass in A Nice Suit / Man of Wealth and Taste
 * Batman Can Breathe in Space
 * Blow You Away: Crowley toys with the idea of conjuring up a hurricane to eliminate rival job applicants.
 * Breakout Character: In case you can't tell, he's considered quite attractive by the fanbase.
 * Care Bear Stare: When filling in Aziraphale's job, which he does sometimes to mantain the status quo.
 * Catch Phrase?: "Ciao!"
 * Cool Car: The Bentley.
 * Cool Shades: Which he wears all the time - although to be fair,
 * Cosmic Plaything
 * Crazy Prepared
 * Dark Is Not Evil: See Not So Different
 * Deadly Prank: The bucket over the door  trick.
 * Death Glare: when deployed by Crowley reality tends to realign accordingly.
 * The Determinator
 * Drives Like Crazy: Something of a speed demon. He never actually hits anyone though.
 * Energy Beings
 * Even Evil Has Standards: After getting praise from downstairs for his work in Spain, despite not having worked there recently, he went there to find out exactly this thing called Spanish Inquisition the humans created all by themselves without any hellish influence was. After finding out, he drank himself into a stupor to forget the whole thing.
 * Evil Is Cool: Has style, all the latest gadgets, and a flashy car.
 * Evil Is Petty
 * Evil Is Sexy: And the fangirls agree.
 * Eyes of Gold
 * Fetish Fuel Station Attendant
 * Friend to All Living Things: Parodied. (He does almost drown ducks from time to time, but Aziraphale stops him.)
 * Friendly Enemy - See the Odd Couple entry.
 * Friendly Neighborhood Demon
 * Glowing Eyes of Doom
 * Go Karting With Bowser: All things aside, he and Aziraphale really are quite good friends.
 * Going Native: After living on earth for thousands of years, humanity has started to rub off on him.
 * Healing Hands: Breathes life back into a drowned dove.
 * Hellish Pupils: Quite literally.
 * Heroic Resolve: He holds his burning car together through sheer force of will.
 * Heterosexual Life Partners: With Aziraphale.
 * Ho Yay / Foe Yay: With Aziraphale again.
 * I Gave My Word: A demon of his word.
 * I Need a Freaking Drink
 * Improvised Weapon: The tire iron.
 * In With the In Crowd: His Start of Darkness.
 * Kick the Son of A Bitch
 * Knight in Sour Armor
 * Laser-Guided Karma:
 * Launcher of a Thousand Ships
 * The Legions of Hell
 * Loveable Rogue or Lovable Traitor
 * Lovecraftian Superpower: Scares off the paintballing corporate commando by turning into something dreadful... "I think the maggots were a bit over the top, myself."
 * Meaningful Name: Crowley, a reference to occultist Aleister Crowley. It also references his original role as the serpent ("Crawly") that tempted Adam and Eve.
 * Minion With an F In Evil
 * Moral Event Horizon: Played with, sort of. Crowley crosses it, at least in the eyes of the other demons, by daring to
 * More Than Mind Control: Temptation.
 * My Species Doth Protest Too Much
 * Nerves of Steel
 * Noble Demon
 * One-Winged Angel:
 * Our Demons Are Different
 * Peer Pressure Makes You Evil: "He never meant to fall, he just ran with the wrong crowd."
 * The Philosopher: "The point is...the point is...dolphins".
 * Punch Clock Villain
 * Real Name As an Alias / Steven Ulysses Perhero / Sue Donym
 * Really Seven Hundred Years Old
 * Red Eyes Take Warning: When he's pissed off.
 * Red Right Hand: Crowley has snake eyes, a forked tongue (which he can do weird things with), and snake skin boots that may or may not be actual boots.
 * Rip Van Winkle: Slept through most of the 19th Century.
 * Screw Destiny
 * Snakes Are Sexy
 * Speech Impediment: Crowley tends to hiss when agitated.
 * Spotlight-Stealing Squad
 * Staying Alive
 * Super Senses
 * Tall, Dark and Snarky
 * Telepathy
 * Teleporters and Transporters
 * That Poor Plant
 * Trickster Archetype
 * Unusual Euphemism / Gosh Dang It to Heck: "Oh Go-, Sa-, Manchester!". Also uses "Bless!" instead of "Damn!", or at least tries to.
 * Unusual User Interface
 * Voluntary Shapeshifting
 * Weaksauce Weakness
 * What Do You Mean It's Not Heinous?: Crowley's reaction to his immediate superiors being rather underwhelmed by his demonic influences (i.e. traffic jams and telemarketers) on the mortal world.
 * Well, it's really more of an example of quality vs. quantity, with his superiors focusing on the former and Crowley the latter.
 * Wicked Cultured: Crowley
 * Winds of Destiny Change: Miraculous near escapes work like this.
 * Wing Pull: When preparing for the final battle.
 * The Woobie: "He hadn't meant to Fall, he'd just gotten in with the wrong people". Getting dosed with a water hose while trying to find Aziraphale - his only friend in the world - in the latter's burning bookshop. Being terrorized by the Dukes of Hell over the radio. Remembering what the Antichrist can do to him just by looking. Pick one.
 * Xanatos Speed Chess: Does this when the Dukes of Hell are after him.
 * The Woobie: "He hadn't meant to Fall, he'd just gotten in with the wrong people". Getting dosed with a water hose while trying to find Aziraphale - his only friend in the world - in the latter's burning bookshop. Being terrorized by the Dukes of Hell over the radio. Remembering what the Antichrist can do to him just by looking. Pick one.
 * Xanatos Speed Chess: Does this when the Dukes of Hell are after him.

Duke Hastur
A Duke of Hell and a nasty piece of work.
 * Authority Equals Asskicking
 * Batman Can Breathe in Space
 * Energy Beings
 * Ho Yay - with Ligur
 * The Legions of Hell
 * Lovecraftian Superpower
 * Our Demons Are Different
 * Playing With Fire
 * Properly Paranoid: At one point, it's mentioned that Hastur is paranoid, which is in fact a very reasonable thing since as he is a denizen of Hell where everyone really is out to get you.
 * Staying Alive
 * Those Two Bad Guys: Hastur and Ligur
 * Time Abyss / Fish Out of Temporal Water: 13th Century mindset.
 * Unusual User Interface
 * Villainous Breakdown:
 * Voluntary Shapeshifting
 * Weaksauce Weakness

Duke Ligur
Likewise a Duke of Hell, and an equally nasty piece of work.
 * Authority Equals Asskicking
 * Batman Can Breathe in Space
 * Big Eater
 * Ho Yay - with Hastur
 * The Legions of Hell
 * Our Demons Are Different
 * Those Two Bad Guys: Hastur and Ligur
 * Time Abyss / Fish Out of Temporal Water - 13th Century mindset.
 * Weaksauce Weakness
 * Weaksauce Weakness

Death a.k.a. Azrael

 * Bold Inflation
 * Don't Fear the Reaper
 * Flaming Skulls
 * Glowing Eyes of Doom
 * The Grim Reaper

War a.k.a. Carmine Zuigiber

 * Blood Knight
 * Evil Redhead / Fiery Redhead
 * Femme Fatale
 * Finger-Lickin' Evil
 * Hot Scoop: Her day job is a journalist who does work on war stories.
 * Let No Crisis Go to Waste
 * Male Gaze: Inasmuch as is possible in a print medium; see below
 * Red Eyes Take Warning
 * She's Got Legs: Which are mentioned rather frequently, usually with an adjective such as "long".
 * Slasher Smile: As her human facade cracks, War's teeth start to gleam "like beautiful bullets."

Famine a.k.a. Dr. Raven Sable

 * And a Diet Coke
 * Beard of Evil
 * Bad Boss: Resolves to have one of his employees fired for singing while on the job.
 * Badass in A Nice Suit
 * Biker of the Apocalypse
 * Corrupt Corporate Executive
 * Lean and Mean
 * Morally-Ambiguous Doctorate
 * Number of the Beast: His street address is spelled out in giant red numbers on his building.

Pollution (a.k.a. Chalky, Mr. White, etc.)

 * Insult Backfire
 * The Pig Pen
 * Tagalong Kid - the youngest of the horsepersons
 * Technopath
 * White-Haired Pretty Boy

Agnes Nutter

 * Badass Abnormal
 * Because Destiny Says So
 * The Cassandra
 * Good Is Not Nice: Even Anathema thinks she was a ornery old hag with a nasty sense of humor.
 * Psychic Powers: She was capable of predicting things that would happen seven hundred years later. Her family just gets the interpretations wrong.
 * Taking You With Me - when the Medieval Morons decide to Burn the Witch it doesn't go as planned.
 * Thanatos Gambit
 * Ye Olde Butcherede Englishe: Parodied.

Newton Pulsifer

 * Doom It Yourself
 * The Glasses Come Off: Subverted: when he takes his glasses off, he ends up looking less handsome because he keeps running into things and ends up covered in bruises and bandages.
 * In the Blood: Newt's ancestor was the one who laid the torch to Agnes Nutter (who was, in turn, Anathema's ancestor).
 * Occult Detective
 * Odd Couple
 * Unfazed Everyman
 * Unlucky Everydude
 * Walking Techbane

Anathema Device

 * Aura Vision: An offshoot of her psychic powers. It's somewhat troubling for her when she can't see a certain person's aura.
 * Badass Abnormal
 * Because Destiny Says So
 * Black Eyes or Green Eyes
 * Eerie Pale-Skinned Brunette: While not that eerie once she becomes a major character, she has the coloration and she does start off as a bit of a Strange Girl.
 * Fail O'Suckyname
 * Prophecy Twist
 * Psychic Powers
 * Psychic Powers

Witchfinder Sergeant Shadwell

 * Badass Normal
 * Crazy Prepared
 * Dark and Troubled Past: Touched upon, "I never used to dream when I was a kid..."
 * Dating Catwoman
 * The Fundamentalist: Almost-but-not-quite Played for Laughs.
 * Funetik Aksent
 * Grumpy Old Man
 * Last-Name Basis
 * Lord Error-Prone
 * Mysterious Past
 * Occult Detective
 * The Remnant
 * Smoking Is Cool

Madame Tracy

 * Cool Old Lady
 * Dating Catwoman
 * Dominatrix
 * Girls Love Stuffed Animals
 * Not So Phony Psychic

Sister Mary Loquacious

 * Cloudcuckoolander
 * Minion With an F In Evil
 * Nice Job Fixing It, Villain
 * Nuns Are Spooky
 * Spanner in The Works

Mr. R. P. Tyler

 * Moral Guardian

Warlock

 * Eagle Land
 * Missed the Call
 * Names to Run Away From Really Fast
 * Royal Brat
 * Switched At Birth

Mr. Young

 * The Comically Serious
 * Standard Fifties Father
 * Supernatural Proof Father

Adam Young

 * The Antichrist
 * Blond Guys Are Evil -
 * Dramatic Wind -
 * From the Mouths of Babes
 * How Do You Like Them Apples
 * Ignorant of the Call
 * The Kid With the Leash
 * Psychoactive Powers - do not upset the Antichrist.
 * Reality Warper
 * Shiny New Australia: Dog has dibs on this section of Earth.
 * Slouch of Villainy
 * Try to Fit That On A Business Card: The Antichrist the Adversary, Destroyer of Kings, Angel of the Bottomless Pit, Great Beast that is called Dragon, Prince of This World, Father of Lies, Spawn of Satan, and Lord of Darkness.
 * Shiny New Australia: Dog has dibs on this section of Earth.
 * Slouch of Villainy
 * Try to Fit That On A Business Card: The Antichrist the Adversary, Destroyer of Kings, Angel of the Bottomless Pit, Great Beast that is called Dragon, Prince of This World, Father of Lies, Spawn of Satan, and Lord of Darkness.

Pepper

 * Berserk Button
 * Embarrassing First Name/Embarrassing Middle Name - Pepper's real name is Pippin Galadriel Moonchild. It's also her Berserk Button.
 * Fiery Redhead
 * Improvised Weapon
 * One of the Boys
 * Youthful Freckles: Parodied - Her face is "one big freckle with bits of skin" under it.
 * Youthful Freckles: Parodied - Her face is "one big freckle with bits of skin" under it.

Jeremy Wensleydale

 * Last-Name Basis

Brian

 * The Pig Pen

Dog

 * A Boy and His X
 * Deathbringer the Adorable
 * Precious Puppies
 * Hell Hound
 * Sealed Evil in A Teddy Bear
 * Team Pet