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* DrivesLikeCrazy: Something of a [[IncrediblyLamePun speed demon.]] He never actually ''hits'' anyone (anyone the plot doesn't need him to hit), but it's really not for lack of opportunity.

* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: After the ArmorPiercingQuestion above, he;s horrified that [[spoiler:he's been ushering in the end of the world]] and immediately takes action to stop it before it's too late, recruiting the Them for help.

* StandardFiftiesFather: {{Enforced|Trope}}, thanks to raising a RealityWarper with traditional notions of what a father figure should be.

Characters that appear in ''Literature/GoodOmens''. For character tropes that are specific to [[Series/GoodOmens2019 the 2019 miniseries]], go [[Characters/GoodOmens2019 here]].

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* DatingCatwoman: [[spoiler:With Mme. Tracy at the end of the book.]]

* HatesEveryoneEqually: He's a racist, a sexist, what have you, but no one's really offended --they even find it endearing--since he obviously hates ''everyone'' and when he makes his hatred known, it is cartoonishly over-the-top, but otherwise harmless. Best exemplified by the following line:

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* BeingGoodSucks: His ChronicHeroSyndrome often inconveniences him. %% does it?

* BritishStuffiness: He ''seems'' very English. It's one of the first things people notice about him, although it's not technically true; "Heaven is not in England, whatever certain poets may have thought."

* FlamingSword: Well, briefly. He gave it away to Adam and Eve after they were banished from Eden, because they were defenseless and cold and he wanted to help keep them warm. It becomes a RunningGag that he keeps telling his superiors that he "misplaced it". [[spoiler:Becomes a ChekhovsGun later on when War receives it, and eventually The Them use it to defeat three of the horsemen (well, bikepeople).]]

* PlatonicLifePartners: With Crowley.

* KnightInSourArmor: He can snark with the best of them.

* MurderIsTheBestSolution: Maybe. "Wouldn't it be better to just..."

* SamaritanSyndrome: Comes with being an angel. He can't help but help people that he passes.

BadIsGoodAndGoodIsBad: Being a demon, he swears in that way. "Oh for Go- Sa- Somebody's sake!" Also uses "Bless!" instead of "Damn!", or at least tries to. Alternately, "Manchester!"
* BeenThereShapedHistory: Responsible for a few low-grade acts of evil in his time on Earth, after helping cause the Fall of Man, such as Glasgow, Manchester, and a good chunk of television.

* CrazyPrepared: Keeps a container of incredibly deadly holy water just in case.
* DarkIsNotEvil: He's a demon, and he doesn't mind a bit of evil here and there, but he quickly becomes disaffected with the forces of Hell since he vastly prefers the human world.

* DrivesLikeCrazy: Something of a [[IncrediblyLamePun speed demon.]] He never actually ''hits'' anyone, except Anathema, which is plot-important, but it's really not for lack of opportunity.

* FaceHeelTurn: Crowley is said to be one of the fallen angels, [[{{SubvertedTrope}} but it turns out that he's not really evil per se]]. It's less that he became evil, and more that he just hung out with the wrong people. It's right there in the Dramatis Personae introduction:

* FelonyMisdemeanor: Crowley's reaction to his immediate superiors being rather underwhelmed by his demonic influences (i.e. traffic jams and telemarketers) on the mortal world. It's something of an example of quality vs. quantity, with his superiors focusing on the former and Crowley the latter because Crowley believes the former is outmoded.

* HeterosexualLifePartners: With Aziraphale. (Again, "non-sexual" is more accurate, since neither of them is technically straight.)

* WindsOfDestinyChange: Miraculous near escapes work like this.

* HeterosexualLifePartners: With Crowley. (Although "non-sexual" might be a more accurate term, since the narrative makes it clear that neither of them even have a sex, let alone sexual orientation.)

* BackToBackBadasses: With Crowley at the end. Nothing comes of it, though.

* BritishStuffiness[=/=]QuintessentialBritishGentleman: He ''seems'' very English. It's one of the first things people notice about him, although it's not technically true; "Heaven is not in England, whatever certain poets may have thought."

* DemonicPossession: Angelic possession, rather. He body surfs to a few people attuned to be mediums, hijacking their bodies for a time.

* MundaneUtility: Less so than Crowley, since just wishing clothes into being doesn't sit well with him, but Aziraphale's using his superios angelic intelligence to keep his tax records so incredibly perfect that tax office people think he must be hiding something.

* RealNameAsAnAlias[=/=]StevenUlyssesPerhero[=/=]SueDonym: Ezra Fell and A. Ziraphale

* TemptingFate: "It's over, don't you think?"

* BackToBackBadasses: With Aziraphale.

* DeadlyPrank: The bucket over the door [[spoiler:filled with holy water]] trick. Subverted when [[spoiler:he turns the paintball ammunition into actual bullets, because he also uses his powers to ensure that no one actually dies as a result. Apart from his entry in the Dramatis Personae, this is one of the earliest hints in the novel that he's really not particularly evil.]]

* FallenAngel: The book calls him this in his Dramatis Personae introduction, as stated above. [[DownplayedTrope Or, rather, not so much Fallen as Sauntered Vaguely Downwards]].

* FriendlyNeighborhoodVampire: He's the only really good demon shown. On the other hand, the narration also notes that most other demons resemble Crowley more than they resemble Hastur and Ligur, who are the only two demons besides Crowley to feature significantly in the narrative.

* GoKartingWithBowser: All things aside, he and Aziraphale really are quite good friends.
* GoingNative: After living on earth for thousands of years, humanity has started to rub off on him.

* KnightInSourArmor: Like Aziraphale, he's quite sarcastic.

* LovableTraitor: He's a traitor to the forces of Hell. For which most of the rest of the characters in the book would be quite thankful, if they knew who he was.

* RealNameAsAnAlias[=/=]StevenUlyssesPerhero[=/=]SueDonym: Not really real name (which we never learn, but he has to sign for TheAntiChrist using "not A. J. Crowley, your real name"), but he's been known as "Crawly" back in the garden of Eden.

* UnusualEuphemism[=/=]GoshdangItToHeck: "Oh for Go- Sa- Somebody's sake!" Also uses "Bless!" instead of "Damn!", or at least tries to. Alternately, [[TakeThat "Manchester!"]]

* UnfazedEveryman: As things get crazy and crazier, he seems to stop caring.

* PerpetualPoverty: The Witchfinder army was founded several centuries ago, and for various reasons has never adjusted wages either in relation to inflation or the invention of decimalized currency. He relies solely on payment from Aizraphale and Crowley, neither of whom have a grasp of human economics (Aziraphale from being several centuries out, Crowley from never having had to pay for anything in his life). As a result, he's had to perform some creative bookkeeping just to scrape by, and seems to subsist solely on tins of condensed milk and whatever meals Madame Tracy leaves for him.

* DesperatelyCravesOrders: Part of why she was in the Order to begin with, since she preferred someone else to do the thinking for her.

* ElephantInTheLivingRoom: Crowley's car when he pulls up to ask for directions.

* FatBastard: Mentioned as being "well-fed".

* PetTheDog: In an odd way. Adam gives out gifts for everyone when he sets the world to rights. Warlock has no apparent change to his life, because as far as Adam and Them are concerned, just living in America is already the coolest thing in the world.

* ThenLetMeBeEvil: Due to his size, general clumsiness and poor scholastic ability, he became a bully mainly out of self-defense.

** Adam to Death: the leader
** Pepper to War: TheSmurfettePrinciple

* DrunkWithPower: Once his powers manifest and he gets mad.

* IKnowYourTrueName[=/=]MeaningfulName: Adam assigning him a name is what gives him his true purpose. If he had been named Killer, or Walks-by-night, the hound's personality would've changed to match. But then Adam named him ''Dog'', turning him into a fairly normal... dog.

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