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R. P. Tyler
Greasy Johnson is the leader of the Them’s rival gang in Tadfield, the Greasy Johnsonites. He’s a hulking, clumsy boy who became a bully out of necessity—it was better to seem powerful as a bully than to just be a “big clumsy oaf.” Though the rivalry between the two gangs is fierce, Adam ultimately realizes that the gangs’ conflict is what makes life fun and interesting. This leads him to his decision to not bring about Armageddon (the end of the world), as he sees the enjoyable gang rivalry as a metaphor for the fight between good and evil on a grand scale. Unbeknownst to him, Greasy Johnson was adopted. The narrator implies that Greasy Johnson is actually the biological son of the American Attaché.
Greasy Johnson Quotes in Good Omens
The Good Omens quotes below are all either spoken by Greasy Johnson or refer to Greasy Johnson. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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Saturday Quotes
“What you’re all sayin’,” he summed up, [...] “is that it wouldn’t be any good at all if the Greasy Johnsonites beat the Them or the other way round?”
“That’s right,” said Pepper. [...] “Everyone needs a Greasy Johnson.”
“Yeah,” said Adam. “That’s what I thought. It’s no good anyone winning.”
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Greasy Johnson Character Timeline in Good Omens
The timeline below shows where the character Greasy Johnson appears in Good Omens. The colored dots and icons indicate which themes are associated with that appearance.
Thursday
...Moonchild. The only people who call her this are her mother and the rival gang, Greasy Johnson and the Johnsonites—but only when they’re out of earshot. Greasy Johnson is the same age...
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Saturday
...begs his friends to help him sort everything out. He asks them to think about Greasy Johnson , the leader of the rival gang in Tadfield. Adam points out that the Them...
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Sunday (The first day of the rest of their lives.)
...to do anything. He’d looked upset when Warlock said he wanted to leave. Far below, Greasy Johnson is flipping through a photography magazine. He pauses on a spread about American football catching...
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