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11	[[caption-width-right:347:"Grrr, I am evil. And you suck." (art by Quantum Witch)]]
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13	->''[[Music/JourneyBand Don't Stop Believing...]]''
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15	->''"You gave me quite a fright, you did. Usually one person doesn't get hurt quite so badly, but you've always had to go above and beyond, haven't you? ...And you never visit anymore, and I can't believe you never mentioned your demon boyfriend."''
16	-->-- '''Raphael''', to Aziraphale
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18	''[[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/4818516/1/Manchester-Lost Manchester Lost]]'' by JA{{Tropers/Moczo}} is a very funny ''Literature/GoodOmens'' CrackFic / ActionAdventure / (non-explicit) SlashFic in which Aziraphale is captured by Hell and Crowley, War and the Archangel Michael (on a MissionFromGod) break in to save him and set off a second apocalypse. It introduces entertaining [[OriginalCharacter characterizations]] of [[TrueCompanions other angels such as Michael, Raphael (Aziraphale's adopted father), Gabriel, and Uriel.]] It's a [[SelfParody self-parodying]] AffectionateParody with many interesting twists and turns along the way.
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20	It is technically a sequel to ''[[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/4731170/1/How-Crowley-Fell-Out-of-Love-with-the-Bentley How Crowley Fell Out of Love with the Bentley]]'' (which is a sequel to ''Literature/GoodOmens''). ''Manchester Lost'' has a sequel, itself, which is complete: ''[[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/5694906/1/Paradise-Thwarted Paradise Thwarted]]'', and which now has [[FanFic/ParadiseThwarted its own page]].
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22	Warning: Spoilers ahead!
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26	!!This fanfic contains examples of:
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28	* AccidentalMarriage: Aziraphale's last name has technically been 'Crowley' for the past 500 years or so; they both thought that the other had arranged the divorce.
29	%% * ActionGirl: Sister Prudence.
30	* AerithAndBob: Names of angels and demons varies from Aziraphale, Crowley, Beelzebub and Steve.
31	%% * AllOfTheOtherReindeer: Young Aziraphale. He was a bit of a nerd.
32	%% * AmazinglyEmbarrassingParents: Raphael.
33	%% * ArchangelGabriel: Poor guy is SurroundedByIdiots.
34	%% * ArchangelMichael: [[LeeroyJenkins At least someone is having fun.]]
35	%% * ArchangelRaphael: Aziraphrale's [[AmazinglyEmbarrassingParents embarrassing parent]] and too nice for his own good.
36	%% * ArchangelUriel: Perpetually happy and a bit high, [[BewareTheSillyOnes except when he's smiting things]].
37	%% * AuthorAppeal: Anime, music, [=RPG=]s, etc.
38	%% * AxCrazy: Uriel, when he's in his 'smite the damned' mode.
39	%% * BackFromTheDead: [[spoiler: Aziraphale and Crowley.]]
40	%% * BackToBackBadasses: Gabriel and Michael, Michael and War briefly.
41	%% * BadBoss: [[spoiler:God and Lucifer. God gets a PetTheDog moment / becomes a BenevolentBoss at the end.]]
42	%% * BadassFamily
43	%% * BadassNormal: Sister Prudence.
44	%% * BasementDweller: Brian.
45	%% * TheBerserker: Michael, War, Moloch.
46	* BerserkButton: The only time Raphael is anything other than [[TeamMom patient and kind]] to [[TrueCompanions the other archangels]] is when [[spoiler: they seem to be treating Aziraphale's death as a triviality.]]
47	%% * BewareTheNiceOnes: One of Hell's very few rules.
48	* BewareTheSillyOnes: Uriel is a perpetually happy CloudCuckoolander, who's also one of the most powerful beings in heaven and is quite merciless when it comes to smiting.
49	%% * BigDamnHeroes: Many moments, often subverted.
50	%% * BondVillainStupidity: Lucifer.
51	* BoringButPractical: Operation Micheal, which is 'stab it until it dies'. Much to Gabriel's annoyance, it works perfectly.
52	* ChekhovsGun: The chocolate muffin Rafael tucks away after the Archangels visit the diner in chapter 8 resurfaces when he shoves it in Uriel's mouth [[spoiler:after the latter attempts to smite Zira]] in chapter 15. May double as a BrickJoke or a ChekhovsGag depending on the reader's sense of humor.
53	%% * ChildhoodFriendRomance:[[spoiler:Kireawel/Crowley]] in some respects, to Aziraphale.
54	* ChurchMilitant: The Order of Our Most Holy Lady of the Righteous Smiting.
55	%% * {{Cloudcuckoolander}}
56	%% --> '''Uriel:''' ''I can't believe you just killed Lucifer!''
57	%% * ColdBloodedTorture: It wouldn't be Hell without it.
58	* ColorCodedForYourConvenience: Demons tend to have darker wings in this ficverse.
59	%% * ColossusClimb
60	%% * CoolAndUnusualPunishment: "Now that's just overkill."
61	* CoolOldLady: This line:
62	--> Sister Josephine, aged ninety-two but with the heart of a woman in her fifties, took out more demons that day than any one angel. Upon her death, she was declared Patron Saint of Arse-Kicking.
63	* CrackFic: Part of the charm.
64	* CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass: Uriel may be a childish {{Cloudcuckoolander}} most of the time, [[AxCrazy but if he thinks you need to be smitten]]...
65	* CrowdSong: [[Music/JourneyBand Don't Stop Believin']], which the angels use to [[spoiler: defeat Satan]].
66	%% * CrucifiedHeroShot: [[spoiler:Zira]] ties Crowley to a tree in this position so he won't be able to do anything.
67	%% * CuteAndPsycho: War.
68	%% * DaddysGirl: [[spoiler: Jesus]] and War.
69	%% * DarkestHour
70	%% * DeadpanSnarker: [[TallDarkAndSnarky Crowley]], Gabriel.
71	%% * DeusExMachina
72	%% * DidYouJustFlipOffCthulhu
73	* DidYouJustPunchOutCthulhu:
74	** [[spoiler: Crowley punched Lucifer - In the FACE!!!]]
75	** '''War:''' ''[[{{Satan}} Mommy]], you're an idiot!'' * decapitates*
76	%% * DividedWeFall
77	* DotingParent: [[AmazinglyEmbarrassingParents Raphael]] thinks that just about everything his little [[EmbarrassingNickname Zizi]] does is amazing and adorable.
78	%% * TheDragon: [[spoiler: A real dragon]] and Beelzebub, both for Lucifer.
79	%% * DreamSequence: Crowley's hallucinations.
80	* EarnYourHappyEnding: [[spoiler: Aziraphale and Crowley get together, Crowley Rises, and everyone ends up happy.]] But boy did they have to go through hell first. Literally, at one point.
81	%% * ElmuhFuddSyndwome: [[spoiler:Anethema and Newton]]'s three-year-old twins, [[spoiler:Aziraphale and Bentley]].
82	%% * EmergencyTransformation: [[spoiler: For Aziraphale and Crowley at the end.]]
83	%% * EveryoneWentToSchoolTogether
84	* EvilMakesYouUgly: Subverted with [[spoiler: Aziraphale/Zira]]; after he Falls, he starts looking more "evil", but his behavior doesn't actually change.
85	%% * EveryoneCanSeeIt: Even the ''[[CoolCar Bentley]]'' ships Aziraphale and Crowley. [[spoiler: And so does God.]]
86	%% * FallenHero: Subverted with [[spoiler:Aziraphale]], see WhatYouAreInTheDark.
87	%% * {{Fangirl}}: Uriel is Gabriel's fangirl. [[{{Cloudcuckoolander}} Yes, Uriel is male.]]
88	%% * FaustianRebellion
89	%% * FauxAffablyEvil: Lucifer
90	%% * FireForgedFriends : Crowley, Michael, and War.
91	* {{Flanderization}}: Crowley and Aziraphale's respective [[GoodAngelBadAngel Good Angel, Bad Angels]] are basically Flanderized versions of the characters they represent.
92	%% * FoeTossingCharge: Through Hell, then through Manchester.
93	%% * AFriendInNeed
94	* FullNameUltimatum: God does this to Crowley to get his attention when he's too depressed over [[spoiler: Aziraphale's death]] to listen. Also counts as IKnowYourTrueName.
95	-->'''God''': Oh, and now you're trying to ''leave''? Without even saying goodbye? Kireawel Gadre'el, would you quit forgetting who you're talking to?
96	%% * TheGlomp: Uriel does this to Gabriel.
97	%% * GlowingEyesOfDoom
98	* GoodAngelBadAngel: [[spoiler: Crowley has Inner Aziraphale and Inner Hastur, Aziraphale has Inner Raphael and Inner Crowley.]]
99	* GoodIsNotNice
100	-->'''Raphael to Lucifer:''' "And I know you have a very strong fondness for... er... sharp, pointy things, and [[PapaWolf so help me Light-Bringer but if you don't let me keep this child]] I will mount your immortal head on one of those sharp pointy things outside my office as a reminder to everyone that even though I am the Healer I am ''not'' a pansy!"
101	** Then there's Uriel's Righteous Smiting. He cares not who the sinner is, or was, or who might care about him/her.
102	%% * HappyPlace
103	* TheHeart: Raphael, to the rest of the archangels. He ''is'' the healer, after all. At one point he notes that without his stabilizing influence they'd probably be a lot less sane than they are.
104	%% * HereWeGoAgain: [[HorsemenOfTheApocalypse Warrior Angels of the Apocalyse]] [[MyFriendsAndZoidberg and Skuzz]]
105	%% * HeroicBSOD: [[spoiler: Aziraphale for a while during and after being tortured and going to his "Happy Place." Crowley after Aziraphale/Zira dies.]]
106	%% * HeroicSacrifice: [[spoiler:Aziraphale/Zira]]
107	* HeroStoleMyBike: When the Four Archangels "borrow" some motorcycles. "It’s not stealing if you’re On a Holy Mission."
108	%% * HeyThatsMyLine: "Ciao."
109	* HippieJesus: Jesus come in as a 'Southern Hippy'.
110	%% * IShallTauntYou
111	%% * IWantGrandkids: "Run!"
112	%% * IdiotBall: Now [[spoiler:Zira]], you promise you won't try and escape?
113	%% * IgnoredEnemy
114	* IncendiaryExponent: [[spoiler:Zira kills Beelzebub while lit on holy fire, much to Michael's pride and jealousy that he died so awesomely]]
115	%% * ImStandingRightHere
116	%% * InsultBackfire
117	* IrritationIsTheSincerestFormOfFlattery:[[SuspiciouslySpecificDenial No, Michael isn't taking fashion tips from Crowley, not at all.]]
118	%% * KillItWithFire: There's Hellfire, and then there's Sister Prudence's Blessed Napalm.
119	%% * KnightTemplar: The Order of Our Most Holy Lady of the Righteous Smiting.
120	* LampshadeHanging: Lots; it's a lot of Snark and SelfParody.
121	* LargeHam
122	--> '''Michael:''' ''Wait, it needs something. Wait, I know - ambiance!''
123	--> '''Music:''' ''You're the best, around! Nothing's gonna ever keep you down!''
124	%% * LawfulStupidChaoticStupid: Raphael (StupidGood), most of the angels (LawfulStupid), Moloch most of the demons (StupidEvil)
125	%% * MetaGuy: Brian.
126	%% * MissionFromGod
127	* MoodWhiplash: One scene has some characters battle Lucifer, and one of them becomes exhausted and falls down. The gripping suspense is ''somewhat'' broken as the author inserts the following note:
128	--> His face looked like this: X_X
129	%% * MoreHeroThanThou
130	%% * MusicalEpisode
131	* NiceJobBreakingItHero: [[LeeroyJenkins Nice job opening a portal that connects Hell and Earth that can't be closed, dumbass.]]
132	* NoSocialSkills: Those entities that haven't been on Earth for very long aren't aware of appropriate human behavior.
133	* NoodleIncident: Death owes the Antichrist a favor for never mentioning this one incident. It involved [[NoodleImplements two kittens, thirteen girl scouts, an ice cream cone, a goat and six pairs of socks]].
134	%% * OminousLatinChanting: The song playing in the background when [[spoiler:Uriel destroys Mammon]].
135	%% * OneWingedAngel: Lucifer, it gets a LampshadeHanging.
136	%% * TheOnlyOneAllowedToDefeatYou: Michael and Lucifer to each other; Gabriel to Michael.
137	%% * OpenMindedParent: Raphael again.
138	%% * OppositeDay: Er... Bizarro book of prophecies.
139	%% * {{Otaku}}: Brian.
140	%% * PapaWolf: Raphael.
141	%% * PokeThePoodle: [[spoiler: Zira]]'s "insults."
142	%% * PsychoForHire: War.
143	%% * RousingSpeech
144	%% * RuleOfCool
145	%% * RuleOfFunny
146	* RunningGag: There is only one response, be you demon, nun, Jesus, or ''Satan'' to the question "Would you like some tea?". --> ''Would'' I!
147	%% * SamusIsAGirl: [[spoiler: And so is Jesus.]]
148	%% * SarcasmBlind: Raphael.
149	* ScrewDestiny:
150	** [[spoiler: God doesn't want the Apocalypse stopped this time. Aziraphale doesn't care.]]
151	** Carried over from the original book, Adam Young may be TheAntichrist, [[AntiAntiChrist but that doesn't mean he wants to destroy the world]].
152	%% * SecondLawOfGenderbending: [[spoiler: Jesus]] decides to stay female.
153	* SheIsNotMyGirlfriend: The mood lightener after [[spoiler: Aziraphale's torture]]; Crowley feels the need to remind War "He is ''not'' my ''mate''!"
154	* ShoutOut:
155	** [[Franchise/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles Turtle Power!]]
156	** "Brian, you are such a geek, you are NOT Franchise/SailorMoon!"
157	** Author's notes reveal that the Lord Jesus Christ is in the body of [[VideoGame/FinalFantasyVII Tifa Lockhart]].
158	* ShownTheirWork: The author has done a lot of research on the Archangels. Their personalities are mostly comedic versions of what Christian tradition has them as.
159	%% * SmallNameBigEgo: Agostino Nutter, Michael.
160	%% * StockBritishPhrases: [[spoiler: Inner]] Aziraphale uses these quite liberally.
161	%% * StrawFeminist: Pepper.
162	%% * StrappedToAnOperatingTable
163	%% * TakeThat: Crowley's hallucinations are a mockery of badfic.
164	%% * TeamMom: Raphael.
165	%% * TeethClenchedTeamwork
166	%% * ThemeMusicPowerUp
167	%% * ThirdLineSomeWaiting: The Famine, Pollution, Newt, and Anathema subplot.
168	* ThirdLawOfGenderbending: PMS, meekness, and a tendency to cry were not part of the [[Literature/TheBible New Testament]].
169	%% * ThisIsForEmphasisBitch
170	%% * ThrowAwayCountry: Manchester; nobody misses it.
171	%% * ToHellAndBack
172	* TooMuchInformation
173	--> '''Raphael:''' ''Perhaps you can skedaddle back to Hell and tell him to call things off? It would be awfully sweet of you. No one wants existence to be over, especially since my son's boyfriend would be destroyed too.''
174	* TooSpicyForYogSothoth
175	--> '''Beelzebub:''' ''That's it, he's not coming anywhere near my Hell.''
176	%% * TrademarkFavoriteFood - Angels like chocolate.
177	* TrapDoor: "Sauntering vaguely downwards" sounds so much better.
178	%% * UnresolvedSexualTension: [[spoiler: Gets out of it at the end.]]
179	%% * VitriolicBestBuds: [[LeeroyJenkins Michael]] and [[DeadpanSnarker Gabriel]].
180	* WhatYouAreInTheDark: [[spoiler:Aziraphale/Zira after Falling [[HeroicSpirit does not change in his resolve to help save humanity]].]]
181	%% * WithDueRespect: [[RageAgainstTheHeavens Poor,]] [[WhatHaveIBecome poor]] Aziraphale.
182	* WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds: Averted. [[spoiler: Aziraphale/Zira accidentally Falls and becomes a demon, but it doesn't change his mission to save humanity or his [[NiceGuy sweethearted personality]] in the slightest.]]
183	%% * YourMom - Used ''twice'' by Adam, both times on beings without mothers.
184	* ZenSurvivor: Hell does not scare Aziraphale, [[ContinuityNod he survived Auschwitz]].

Context FanFic / ManchesterLost