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* [[The Alleged Car]]: Newt's Wasabi.
** Taken [[Up to Eleven]] with {{spoiler|[[Cool Car|Crowley's Bentley]] after going over the M25. It's on fire, has no wheels, and takes all Of Crowleys concentration just to keep it from falling apart.}}
* [[Aluminum Christmas Trees]]: You know Aziraphale's copy of the Bible that accidentally read "Thou Shalt Commit Adultery"? [http://en.[wikipedia.org/wiki/Wicked_Bible:Wicked Bible|It exists]].
* [[Ambiguously Gay]]: Aziraphale is described as giving the impression that he is "gayer than a tree full of monkeys on nitrous oxide". The same passage explains, however, that divine beings are without sexual characteristics (unless they really want) and therefore couldn't be considered to have any sexual orientation.
* [[Anthropomorphic Personification]]: The four Horse''persons''.
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*** Alf's accent was fairly firmly in Sarf London, the one area Shadwell's never goes near.
* [[Funny Foreigner]]/[[Eagle Land]]: {{spoiler|Sister Mary mistakes Mr. Young for the American diplomat.}} [[Hilarity Ensues]].
* [[GaiasGaia's Vengeance]]: The sickly potted trees in a South American shopping mall have a sudden rush of energy and tear the place to bits.
* [[Gambit Roulette]]: {{spoiler|At the end of the book, Aziraphale notes that the near-miss Armageddon may have been exactly what the God intended. The two sides actually go home to consult higher management when he brings it up to them. Everything may be to plan, but is the ''ineffable'' plan after all...}}
{{quote| "It can't be [[Xanatos Speed Chess|chess]] - it must just be [[Gambit Roulette|very complicated solitaire.]]"}}
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** Crowley has a tendency to ''hiss'' when he forgets himself.
* [[Glowing Eyes of Doom]]: Death/Azrael. Crowley, as well, when he's straining himself.
* [[Go -Karting With Bowser]]: Aziraphale and Crowley most of the time.
* [[God]]
* [[Going Native]]: Aziraphale and Crowley who have more in common with humanity and each other than they do with Heaven or Hell.
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*** [[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.]]
* [[Good Wings, Evil Wings]]: Subverted, there is little difference between the wings of angels and demons [[Evil Is Sexy|though the wings of demons tend to be better groomed]]. The fandom mostly ignores this, choosing instead to represent demons' wings as black and angels' as white, or, more rarely, to have the latter simply lighter in color than the former.
** Fandom preference can be argued for, or rather not actually disproven by canon, as there is no mention of specific colours in the book. Azrael's wings are called "angel's wings" while also being described as black holes into space with visible stars, therefore not even feathers. Both Beelzebub and Metatron could be seen as having flaming red and gold wings, respectively, as they are both on fire. If one makes the assumption that angels only have white wings, there are countless examples of classical artwork and stained glass windows with every colour in the rainbow. The concept of only white wings seems likely to have begun with the works of the artist Bougeureau in the 1800's.
* [[Granola Girl]]: Anathema Device is something like this.
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* [[Heroic Fire Rescue]]: Crowley runs into a burning bookshop with what everyone else perceives is an intention to rescue the (similarly immortal) angel Aziraphale; but what Crowley is really after, and rescues, is the extremely vital sole remaining edition of ''The Nice And Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Wyttche''.
* [[Heroic Resolve]]: Crowley holds his burning car together through '''[[Determinator|sheer force of will]]'''. [[Incredibly Lame Pun|Hell on wheels, eh?]]
* [[How Do You Like Them Apples?]]: Eden is mentioned. Do the math.
* [[Holy Hand Grenade]]: "Ever been to Gomorrah? ...[[Ambiguously Gay|I meant]] [[Getting Crap Past the Radar|afterwards."]]
* [[Humanoid Abomination]]: The Horsemen approach this as Armageddon draws near. Their human forms are described as "ill-fitting" and their human-like personalities start to fade as their basic programming as bringers of destruction becomes dominant. {{spoiler|Something similar nearly happens to Adam.}} Only Death is unaffected - Death never changes, after all.
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* [[Obfuscating Stupidity]]: Aziraphale, to GOD.
* [[Occult Detective]]: The modern Witchfinders.
* [[Odd Couple]]: [[Go -Karting With Bowser|Aziraphale and Crowley.]]
** [[Dating Catwoman|Newt and Anathema.]] But that one makes a certain amount of sense. He was a witchfinder and, well, he found himself a witch.
* [[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.
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** To a lesser extent, Thou-Shalt-Not-Commit-Adultery Pulsifer.
*** The Witchfinders seem to have an excess of these, a favorite being Witchfinder-Colonel Ye-Shall-Not-Eat-Any-Living-Thing-With-The-Blood-Neither-Shall-Ye-Use-Enchantment-Nor-Observe-Times Dalrymple.
*** [[Truth in Television|This is likely to be a parody of the names that 17th Century Puritans inflicted on their offspring.]] For instance, the unfortunate [http://en.[wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicholas_Barbon:Nicholas Barbon|Nicholas If-Jesus-Christ-Had-Not-Died-For-Thee-Thou-Hadst-Been-Damned Barbon.]]
* [[Overly Long Tongue]]: Crowley, apparently.
* [[Overt Rendezvous]]: Crowley and Aziraphale meet at the duck pond in St. James's Park, which is said to be ''the'' meeting place for spies. Also, the café at the British Museum, a home-away-from-home for the battle-weary soldiers of the [[Cold War]]. Complete with arguments over who gets the receipts.
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* [[Reality Warper]]: {{spoiler|Adam}}, and ''every single supernatural being'', to a greater or lesser extent.
* [[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.
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{{quote| ''God does not play dice with the universe. He plays an ineffable game of His own devising, which might be compared, from the perspective of the other players <ref>i.e. everybody</ref>, to be involved in an obscure and complex version of poker in a pitch-dark room, with blank cards, for infinite stakes, with a Dealer who won't tell you rules and '''smiles all the time'''.'' }}
* [[Short Title Long Elaborate Subtitle]]
* [[Shout -Out]]: Many, many of them, ranging from [[Edgar Allan Poe]] to [[Dirty Harry]].
** One of the Them mistakes Metatron for [[Transformers|Megatron]] when he introduces himself.
** When the Them are playing Adam does the best [[Star Wars|Darth Vader]] impression. Reference is made to the arguments over who gets to wear the coal scuttle and blow up planets.
** Little girl at Warlock's birthday party: "I gotter [[Transformers|transformer]] anna [[My Little Pony|mylittleponyer]] anna [[Transformers|decepticonattacker]] anna [[Thunder Cats|thundertank]] anna..."
** And, of course, the dedication: "To [[GK Chesterton]]: A Man Who Knew What Was Going On". (This ''may'' be a subversion, as GKC did play (notably in ''The Man Who Was Thursday'') with the idea that Good's {{spoiler|(or God's)}} [[The Plan|Ultimate Plan]] may sometimes appear to be Evil; however, GKC was ultimately a moral absolutist, and some irony may be at work here.) Neil Gaiman is known to be a big admirer of Chesterton, so it may be played straight.
** [[ETE.T. 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-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.
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** And guess where the names [[HP Lovecraft|Hastur and Dagon]] come from?
*** Hastur is from a story by Ambrose Bierce. Dagon was an Assyrian fertility god.
* [[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 [http://en.[wikipedia.org/wiki/Pendle_witches: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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* [[Trickster Archetype]]: Crowley.
* [[Triple Nipple]]: Shadwell is obsessed with them, since they're one of the signs of a witch. One of Newton's daily duties is to check the [[Page Three Stunna]] for it.
* [[True Companions]]: Let's face it, once Crowley rushes into a burning building to save Aziraphale and has a brief [[Freak -Out]] when he doesn't find him, it's pretty clear that they're not just amiable enemies.
* [[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]]
* [[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".