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** At the {{spoiler|last paragraph after Adam managed to avert the apocalypse [[Nineteen Eighty-Four|"If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot]]... No, imagine a sneakerlace trailing, kicking a pebble; imagine a stick, to poke at interesting things, and throw for a dog that may or may not decide to retrieve it; imagine a tuneless whistle, pounding some luckless popular song into insensibility; imagine a figure, half angel, half devil, all human... [[The Second Coming|slouching hopefully towards Tadfield...]] [[Nineteen Eighty-Four|forever..."]]}}
** Adam's style of speaking is pretty much an homage to William Brown in the ''[[Just William]]'' stories.
** A few to
** Pepper's real name, [[The Lord of the Rings|Pippin Galadriel]] [[The Neverending Story (novel)|Moonchild]] is twofer reference to ''[[The Lord of the Rings]]'' and ''[[The Neverending Story (novel)|The Neverending Story]]''.
** And guess where the names Hastur and Dagon come from? ([[Small Reference Pools|No]], not [[H.P. Lovecraft
* [[Shown Their Work]]: You'd think that Nutter and Device were just comedic last names made up for laughs. Anathema's lecture on the topic certainly plays this aspect up. However, if you're familiar with the [[wikipedia:Pendle witches|Pendle Witches]] then you'll know that they were the
▲* [[Shown Their Work]]: You'd think that Nutter and Device were just comedic last names made up for laughs. Anathema's lecture on the topic certainly plays this aspect up. However, if you're familiar with the [[wikipedia:Pendle witches|Pendle Witches]] then you'll know that they were the last names of some "actual" witches.
* [[Sidetracked by the Analogy]]: Too many to list. It seems no one can make an analogy without being derailed by their listeners.
* [[Signs of the End Times]]: Naturally, given it's the Biblical Apocalypse.
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* [[Super Senses]]: Crowley can see in the dark, but turns on the headlights anyway so as not to upset the other drivers.
* [[Sweet Tooth]]: Aziraphale.
* [[Switched At Birth]]: The main reason why Armageddon fails to go off as planned
* [[Take That]]: Aziraphale's dismissiveness of televangelism and the Rapture while possessing a televangelist who's on the air. [[Is This Thing Still On?|"Gosh, am I on television?"]]
** It's made clear that this televangelist believes what he says and really does funnel most of his enormous income back into the ministry, doing "what he really thought was the Lord's work". One can only speculate whose cause ''that'' helps.
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** [[Random Teleportation]]: "Don't worry about it. Just send 'em."
* [[Tempting Fate]]: "It's over, don't you think?"
* [[Terms of Endangerment]]:
* [[Terms of Endangerment]]: War, at the bar, calls her would-be attackers "chaps". In fact, she calls everybody that. Also, Crowley's habit of calling Aziraphale "angel" seems to have a positive correlation as to how much danger they are in. Aziraphale calls Crowley "dear" on a fairly regular basis.▼
** War, at the bar, calls her would-be attackers "chaps". In fact, she calls everybody that.
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* [[Thanatos Gambit]]: Agnes Nutter.
* [[That Poor Plant]]: Plants, plural, and all of them are Crowley's.
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* [[True Name]]: Crowley is made to sign his true name, in receipt of one Antichrist.
** The Horsemen are also made to sign their true names in receipt of their weapons.
** Pollution's pen leaks while signing his, blotting it to the point that it might read "Pollution" or possibly "Pestilence." A reference to an earlier statement that, with the rise of sewers, medicine and antibiotics, Pestilence hadn't had much work lately. Pollution, on the other hand...
** Possibly also God.
* [[Trust-Building Blunder]]
* [[Unlucky Everydude]]: Newt. Literally. He has terrible luck at everything he does, minus finding a job. {{spoiler|Gets out of it at the end}}.
* [[Unstoppable Mailman]]: The same mailman is able to deliver packages to all four horsemen of the apocalypse including killing himself to meet Death and deliver a package.
* [[Unusual Euphemism]] / [[Gosh Dang It to Heck]]: "Oh Go--, Sa--, [[Acceptable Targets|Manchester]]!", also "making an effort".
* [[Urban Fantasy]]
▲* [[UST]]: Shadwell and Madame Tracy.
* [[Voluntary Shapeshifting]]
* [[Walking Techbane]]: Newton Pulsifer, to an extraordinary extent.
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