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* [[Anthropomorphic Personification]]: The four Horse''persons''.
* [[The Antichrist]]: Adam.
* {{spoiler|[[Anti
** [[Zig Zagged Trope|Zig-zagged]]. {{spoiler|He's a mischevious kid who doesn't quite understand adult morality yet, but doesn't do anything really ''nasty''... then he gets angry at the way the human race is screwing up the world and decides to do something about it. For a bit, he becomes a crazed monster, willing to genocide the human race and build new, better people for him to play with. Then his human side regains control and he becomes basically good, but still with that dark well of evil threatening to burst through every so often.}}
* [[Anticlimax]]: {{spoiler|Just when it looks like the Apocalypse has been averted, a mighty rumble from underground signals that [[Satan|Crowley's boss]] isn't going to let this go easily}}. Crowley and Aziraphale arm themselves for the final battle, [[It Has Been an Honor|exchange speeches]], [[Transformation Sequence|change into]] [[One
* [[Are You Pondering What I'm Pondering?]]: "Listen, do you know what eternity is?"
* [[Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking]]: "Human beings mostly aren't [particularly evil]. They just get carried away by new ideas, like [[Those Wacky Nazis|dressing up in jackboots]] and shooting people, or dressing up in white sheets and lynching people, or dressing up in tie-dye and playing guitars at people".
** "Many phenomena - wars, plagues, sudden audits - have been advanced as evidence for the hidden hand of Satan in the affairs of Man..."
* [[Aura Vision]]: An offshoot of Anathema Device's psychic powers. It causes slight troubles when she can't see a certain person's aura.
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* [[A Worldwide Punomenon]]: Newt named his lemon of a Wasabi "Dick Turpin"... on account of the fact that it holds up traffic wherever it goes.
* [[Baby Talk]] (or possibly, given that she's a Satanist, [[Cuteness Proximity]]): Sister Mary Loquacious, getting distracted by the baby [[Anti Christ]] and his little hoofie-woofies. {{spoiler|Which he hasn't got}}.
* [[Back
* [[Badass Decay]]: In-universe example. A huge dog that would make angry rottweilers and pitbulls cower gets turned into a small terrier-like mongrel with a funny ear, because Adam's his master and he said so. Much to Dog's dismay, he can't scare away cats like he used to and tries (mostly unsuccessfully) to fight small-dog instincts.
** By the end he gives up and starts to enjoy it, realizing much as Crowley has that Earth is so much more interesting than Hell.
* [[Badass Normal]]: [[Badass Bystander|Pepper, Brian, and Wensleydale]] who {{spoiler|defeat the Horsemen}}, and Shadwell, who's {{spoiler|ready to take on [[Satan]]. With his ''head''}}.
* [[Bad Boss]]: Crowley is a demon, so his superiors include [[Those Two Bad Guys|Hastur and Ligur]], [[Voice With an Internet Connection|Dagon]], Beelzebub and [[Satan]] - all of whom are nasty pieces of work and threaten to [[Cold
* [[Balance Between Good and Evil]]: {{spoiler|The Anti-Christ}}.
* [[Batman Can Breathe in Space]]: Technically, angels and demons don't need to breathe.
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* [[Brick Joke]]: Oh so many. One includes Tropical Fish. Then again, consider the authors.
** The best has got to be 'Let's do the Ritz' around page ten. About two hundred pages later, a nightingale sang in Berkeley Square.
* [[Buffy
* [[Call Back]]
** {{spoiler|The M25 becomes a major hurdle. It was first mentioned in a characterization joke in the first chapter.}}
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* [[Crack Fic]]: It basically ''is'' one for [[The Bible (Literature)|The Bible]].
* [[Crazy Prepared]]: Crowley {{spoiler|keeping holy water on hand.}}
* [[Curb Stomp Battle]]: [[One
** War, after getting her sword in a bar full of armed soldiers, decides it's time to get to know them better.
* [[Dark Action Girl]]: War.
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* [[Devil in Disguise]]: Crowley. His immediate superior is Hastur, who works for Beelzebub, who, in turn, reports to Satan himself.
* [[Digging to China]] (or from Tibet)
* [[Does This Remind You of Anything?]]: The Young family's phone number: Tadfield six double-six.
* [[A Dog Named "Dog"]]: Dog, a hellhound who goes from a massive terrifying beast to a miniature mutt with a funny ear.
* [[Don't Explain the Joke]]: Subverted. Footnotes were added to American version to explain some of the jokes that depend on knowing British geography and such. Except they tend to boil down to "If you were British, you'd be laughing."
* [[Doom It Yourself]]: Newt.
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* [[Drives Like Crazy]]: Crowley is something of a [[Incredibly Lame Pun|speed demon.]]
* [[Earth Is Young]]: The Earth has only been around for 6,000 years and all the 'old' stuff in the ground is God's decoration. Or [[Troll|personal amusement]]; consider the dinosaur skeletons.
* [[Eerie Pale
* [[Elvis Lives]]: A [[Running Gag]]. (For the record, he unwittingly works for Famine at a burger joint.)
{{quote| '''Death:''' {{smallcaps|I don't care what it says, I never laid a finger on him.}}}}
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* [[Good Is Boring]]: It's explained that Heaven doesn't have any good, notable musicians or actors.
** The two musical exceptions that Crowley says Heaven possesses are Elgar and Liszt. It's implied to be very terrible.
** Crowley underlies some of the [[What Do You Mean
*** [[Not So Different|Note that this is a parody of the traditional hellfire sermon, where the bird flying across the universe is used to suggest how long the torments of the damned will go on.]]
* [[Good Is Not Dumb]]: Aziraphale. Members of [[The Mafia]] [[Shame If Something Happened|that threaten his bookstore]] [[Mugging the Monster|tend to leave and never come back]]. [[Beware the Nice Ones|Just because he's an angel doesn't mean he's weak.]]
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* [[Granola Girl]]: Anathema Device is something like this.
* [[The Grim Reaper]]: Similar to but a lot less interested in humanity than the ''[[Discworld (Literature)|Discworld]]'' version. (Almost nothing like the ''[[The Sandman|Sandman]]'' version, for the record, except for the wings.)
* [[Guardian Entity]]: Aziraphale and Crowley to the [[Anti
* [[The Gump]]: Subverted. Crowley received a commendation from Hell for starting the Spanish Inquisition. He didn't, rather he just happened to be in the area when it started. When he finally got around to seeing what this new-fangled Inquisition was, he ended up [[Even Evil Has Standards|spending a good deal of time drinking to forget what he saw]].
** Likewise, Crowley and Aziraphale both claimed Milton Keynes as a success, and believed meter maids were a plot by the other side, but both were entirely human creations.
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* [[Knight Templar]]: Played with for the Witch Finder Army, generally for laughs.
** Played horrifyingly straight for {{spoiler|the forces of Heaven and Hell}}.
* [[Laser
* [[Laser
* [[Last
** Anthony J. Crowley. (Technically, that's not his real name anyway.)
* [[Lean and Mean]]: Sable/Famine.
* [[The Legions of Hell]]
* [[Let's Get Dangerous]]: Aziraphale and the [[Flaming Sword]]. "Once you learn, you never really forget how."
* [[Line
** On the other hand, he can be forgiven, because the Witchfinder's Army is on roughly same pay scale it was when it was first formed, meaning that not even the fictional Majors, let alone a Sergeant, makes even a whole pound come payday.
* [[Lord Error
* [[Louis Cypher]]
* [[Loveable Rogue]] or [[Lovable Traitor]]: Crowley.
* [[Lovecraftian Superpower]]: Crowley scares off the paintballing commando by turning into something ''dreadful''... "I think the maggots were a bit over the top, myself."
* [[
* [[Male Gaze]]: War's legs get mentioned significantly more times than anyone else's, and with complimentary adjectives attached.
* [[Man of Wealth and Taste]]: Crowley, and Sable.
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* [[Namesake Gag]]: Anathema Device is descended from the man who invented the device. When Newt doubts this, she says sarcastically that next he'll claim he's never heard of Humphrey Gadget, Pieter Gizmo, Cyrus T. Doodad, or Ella Reader Widget.
** Device really is a Lancashire name (see below) but seems to be properly pronounced 'DEH-viss', so probably just a regional version of Davis. However, pronunciations of English names can change as families move round the country...
* [[
* [[Names to Run Away From Really Fast]]: Parodied and invoked. Sister Mary tries and fails to convince the adoptive father to name the {{spoiler|misplaced}} [[The Antichrist|Antichrist]] Wormwood, Damien, Errol, Cary, Saul, Cain, and a large number of demons and Hollywood villains, before settling on... {{spoiler|Adam}}. A more persuasive nun convinces the ambassador to name the {{spoiler|wrong}} [[The Antichrist|Antichrist]] "Warlock".
** There's also Dagon and Beelzebub ([[Exactly What It Says On the Tin|Lord of the Flies]]), whom Crowley contacts when he needs to talk to his supervisors.
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* [[Oddly Small Organization]]: The Witchhunters are just Shadwell, joined by Newt. Everyone else is long dead, and a good chunk of those "Witchunters" were mostly interested in claiming the property of those accused.
* [[One of the Boys]]: Pepper.
* [[One
* [[Operation Game of Doom]]: Crowley getting out his holy water and placing it in a bucket. One splash on him, even a TINY DROP, means it's over.
* [[Our Angels Are Different]]
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* [[Poke the Poodle]]: Crowley, who's considered an incompetent idiot by his fellow demons for choosing to annoy an entire population than drive one person to ruin and temptation, such as tying up the phone lines of Britain for seconds or causing traffic jams.
** Subverted by the narration, which backs up Crowley's claim that this a more effective investement of effort for the given corruption. Annoyed people have a tendency towards taking it out on others, and where other demons take years to corrupt a single person, Crowley in an afternoon slightly tarnishes ''thousands'' of souls.
* [[Precision F
* [[Properly Paranoid]]: At one point, it's mentioned that Hastur is paranoid, which is in fact a very reasonable thing since he's grown up in Hell, where everyone really ''is'' out to get you.
* [[Prophecy Twist]]: Tons of them.
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* [[Really Seven Hundred Years Old]]: Angels, demons, personifications, and other immortals.
* [[Red Eyes Take Warning]]: War; Crowley, when he's pissed off.
* [[Red Oni, Blue Oni]]: Crowley and Aziraphale, arguably.
* [[Red Right Hand]]: Crowley has snake eyes, a forked tongue, and snake skin boots that may or may not be actual boots.
* [[Religious Horror]]: Parodied.
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** [[ET the Extraterrestrial (Film)|Upon seeing the Them ride past on their bikes the airbase guard asks if anyone saw if they were carrying an alien in a basket]].
** There's also the [[Doctor Who (TV)|alien that looked like a pepper pot]], described as ''beeping,'' so... [[Star Wars|it's a bit of a twofer.]]
** At the {{spoiler|last paragraph after Adam managed to avert the apocalypse [[Nineteen Eighty
** Adam's style of speaking is pretty much an homage to William Brown in the [[Just William]] stories.
** A few to the ''[[Hitch Hikers Guide to The Galaxy|Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy]]'' series. When discussing the coming apocalypse while drunk, Aziraphale mentions, "Something about dolphins."
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* [[Signs of the End Times]]: Naturally, given it's the Biblical Apocalypse.
* [[Slouch of Villainy]]: Played with in regards to {{spoiler|Adam}}.
* [[Small Name, Big Ego]]: Mr. R.P. Tyler.
* [[Smite Me, O Mighty Smiter!]]: Agnes Nutter appears to heckle God on the pyre. Actually, {{spoiler|she's addressing Shadwell, whom she ''predicted'' would be dreaming about her death in the present-day}}!
* [[The Spanish Inquisition]]: The children's version involved straw donkeys and asking girls "art thou a witch, ''[[Gratuitous Spanish|viva España]]''?"
** The dunking stool doesn't work out quite as planned - it's a hot day, and no one doing the dunking quite understands why Pepper's kid sister is the one who gets to go into the water.
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* [[Speech Impediment]]: Crowley tends to [[Sssssnaketalk|hiss when agitated]].
* [[Spirit Advisor]]: Aziraphale is stuck like this for a time.
* [[
** Admittedly the angel-demon [[Odd Couple]] does provide a good deal of the philosophical ponderings of the novel, and they pretty much embody the idea of "good" and "evil" being [[Not So Different]]. But as for actual effects on the plot, Crowley and Aziraphale are basically running a [[Hardy Boys Investigation]]. They put a lot of effort into preventing it, but the net result of their efforts is both jack and squat. Then again, having the entire plot resolved by only the human characters without supernatural help may be the point of the story.
* [[Staying Alive]]: For angels and demons, though discorporation is rather a pain because it involves going through the red tape of requesting a new body from the management.
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* [[Sweet Tooth]]: Aziraphale.
* [[Switched At Birth]]: The main reason why Armageddon fails to go off as planned? {{spoiler|A Satanic Nun gave the Anti-Christ to the wrong family. By accident}}.
* [[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.
* [[Taking You With Me]]: Agnes Nutter. (Again.)
* [[Tall, Dark and Snarky]]: Crowley.
* [[Telepathy]]: "He wanted a real gun." Mind reading also seems part of the angelic/demonic power set.
* [[Teleporters and Transporters]]
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** In fact it is how Newt finds him. After all, [[British Weather|when was the last anywhere else in Britain had perfect weather?]]
* [[What Could Have Been]]: [[Phil Foglio]] drew the first two pages of an [http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/stories/goodomens/GoodOmens01.php adaptation].
* [[What Do You Mean
** Hastur and Ligur look down on Crowley's tying up London's phone system for an hour at lunchtime (tarnishing thousands of souls in a domino effect of people being in bad moods across the city) in favor of their more artful craft of spending a lifetime trying to corrupt a single pious individual.
* [[White
* [[Wicked Cultured]]: Crowley.
* [[Winds of Destiny Change]]: Miraculous near-escapes work like this.
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