History Headscratchers / GoodOmens

* The shootout at Warlock's birthday party. Pterry and Neil are usually pretty [[IncrediblyLamePun accurate]] with their firearm writings, so how could they have come up with CIA-issue .32 Magnums capable of turning a person into PinkMist? .32 is an ineffective round for anything other than varmint hunting, there's no such thing as a .32 Magnum pistol (although there is a fairly rare .32 H&R Magnum ''revolver''), and CIA, who aren't known for issuing firearms to their field agents at all, would have been much more likely to go with 9mm Parabellum or .45 ACP.

** According to what might be ''literally'' WordOfGod, the destruction/remaking of Earth involves the creation of the indescribably beautiful City of God, the weeding out of the human race, and the retention of a very small number of the less smelly and rebellious best of the crop. And of course the utter destruction of Hell and the fallen angels. Of course, it'd be a lonely place for Azaraphile if Crowley is consigned to destruction in the Lake of Fire. Something the Angel might have considered.

** According to what might be ''literally'' WordOfGod, the destruction/remaking of Earth involves the creation of the indescribably beautiful City of God, the weeding out of the human race and retention of a very small number the less smelly and rebellious best of the crop, and the utter destruction of Hell and the fallen angels. Of course, it'd be a lonely place for Azaraphile if Crowley is consigned to destruction in the Lake of Fire. Something the Angel might have considered.

* Why exactly does Heaven want the Apocalypse to happen? I get that most angels are, at best, apathetic towards humanity, but I can't imagine what they possibly have to gain by causing the end of he world.

* Why exactly does Heaven want the Apocalypse to happen? I get that most angel are, at best, apathetic towards humanity, but Haven's stake in this is a complete mystery to me.

* Why exactly does Heaven want the Apocalypse to happen? It's pretty obvious for Hell, what with most demons being evil assholes who get off on pain and misery. Haven's stake in this on the other hand is a complete mystery to me.

It says in the book that "It had occurred to War that there might one day be an end to War, an end to Famine, possibly even an end to Pollution, and perhaps this was why the fourth and greatest horseman was never exactly what you might call one of the lads." But that very day, they were bringing about the End of the World and Armageddon. Afterwards would be "Just endless Heaven or, depending who won, endless Hell". So, presumably no more war, famine or pestilence. I'm just wondering why War was thinking of the Horsemen's end as being some distant possibility, as opposed to the logical conclusion of Armageddon, which had a set date. Or is she open to the possibility of Armageddon not actually happening?

* Despite the fact that the Horsemen are the ones destined to actually destroy everything and the Antichrist just the one destined to found an empire afterwards, both Aziraphale and Crowley's and Anathema Device's plans revolve solely about preventing the Antichrist from doing his job as if that would stop the apocalypse. Anathema has Agnes Nutters' prophecies, Aziraphale a first edition Literature/BookOfRevelation and Aziraphale and Crowley are a literal angel and demon respectively, so all three have no business not knowing this. Yet all of them act like the Antichrist's failure to fulfill his function would not make the apocalypse occur and everybody treats the four horsemen like [[GiantSpaceFleaFromNowhere Giant Space Fleas from Nowhere]] when they appear and do attempt to start it. Why did Aziraphale and Crowley waste [=ELEVEN=] years playing babysitter to the (fake) Antichrist instead of coming up with a plan to assassinate the Four Horsemen? Since the demons were the ones that tasked the mailman to give the horsemen their items, Crowley could have found out their whereabouts.

** The boys have also presumably been taught from a fairly young age that hitting girls is a particularly not-very-nice thing to do, which is no doubt part of their "timeless code of honour" (i.e. boys don't hit girls). Since Pepper is less likely to have had the inverse ethical principle of "girls don't hit boys" drilled into her in the same way (since for various reasons girls are generally less likely / encouraged to engage in physical / violent conflict than boys are), she has a slight advantage over them in that they're likely to hold their punches towards her, but she's under no obligation to do the same. In essence, she benefits from a DoubleStandard.