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Pepper is the only female member of the Them, Adam’s gang of 11-year-olds who make mischief in Tadfield. She’s a vicious fighter and will take on anyone, even the hulking leader of Tadfield’s rival gang, Greasy Johnson. A tomboy, Pepper resents it when people treat her like she’s a girl—so, for instance, she hates that her parents got her a “girly” blue bike with a basket for her birthday instead of the fast purple bike she actually wanted. Pepper’s full first name is Pippin Galadriel Moonchild, which the narrator credits for her becoming such a violent and ready fighter. Indeed, she became friends with the rest of the Them (Adam, Wensleydale, and Brian) when she beat them up after sharing her full name. A red-headed girl and the most violent of the Them, Pepper corresponds to War, the female Horseman of the Apocalypse. She vanquishes War with a sword made of sticks and string when Adam leads the Them to stop Armageddon (the end of the world).
Pepper Quotes in Good Omens
The Good Omens quotes below are all either spoken by Pepper or refer to Pepper. 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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Wednesday Quotes
“I’ll call him Dog,” said his master, positively. “It saves a lot of trouble, a name like that.”
The hell-hound paused. Deep in its diabolical canine brain it knew that something was wrong, but it was nothing if not obedient and its great sudden love of its master overcame all misgivings. Who was to say what size it should be, anyway?
It trotted down the slope to meet its destiny.
Strange, though. It had always wanted to jump up at people but, now, it realized that against all expectation it wanted to wag its tail at the same time.
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Saturday Quotes
“You don’t have to be so lit’ral about everything,” he said. “That’s the trouble these days. Grass materialism. ‘S people like you who go round choppin’ down rain forests and makin’ holes in the ozone layer. There’s a great big hole in the ozone layer ‘cos of grass materialism people like you.”
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Dog slunk along with his tail between his legs, whining.
This wasn’t right, he was thinking. Just when I was getting the hang of rats. Just when I’d nearly sorted out that bloody German Shepherd across the road. Now He’s going to end it all and I’ll back with the ole glowin’ eyes and chasin’ lost souls. What’s the sense in that? They don’t fight back, and there’s no taste to ‘em...
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“Oh, if that’s all that’s worryin’ you, don’t you worry,” said Adam airily, “’cos I could make you all just do whatever I wanted—”
He stopped, his ears listening in horror to the words his mouth was speaking. The Them were backing away.
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“No,” he said hoarsely. “No. Come back! I command you!”
They froze in mid-dash.
Adam stared.
“No, I dint mean it—” he began. “You’re my friends—”
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Adam opened his mouth and screamed. It was a sound that a merely mortal throat should not have been able to utter [...]
Whatever had been standing in the old quarry before, Adam Young was standing there now. A more knowledgeable Adam Young, but Adam Young nevertheless. Possibly more of Adam Young than there had ever been before.
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“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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Pepper Character Timeline in Good Omens
The timeline below shows where the character Pepper appears in Good Omens. The colored dots and icons indicate which themes are associated with that appearance.
Thursday
...are always interesting to Adam’s gang, which is known around town as the Them. But Pepper has impressive news about the most recent newcomer: she’s a witch, she gets a witch’s...
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Pepper became a fighter to prevent people from mocking her full first name, Pippin Galadriel Moonchild....
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...to hell for that. Adam shifts and notes that witches aren’t so bad, which prompts Pepper and Brian to detail all the bad things that witches do. Wensleydale insists witches don’t...
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The Spanish Inquisition convenes after lunch. Adam is the Chief Inquisitor, while Pepper will be the Head Torturer. Brian and Wensleydale are guards because they don’t speak any...
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Later that afternoon, Mr. Young bans Adam from watching TV as punishment for destroying Pepper’s little sister’s dress in the pond. Now, Adam slouches down the dusty lane with Dog...
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Friday
...away. The Them love UFOs, but they’re not as interested in Adam’s New Age UFOs. Pepper says that if she was an alien, she’d shoot people with laser blasters, not tell...
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Saturday
...announces that they have it all wrong about witches—the witches have been right all along. Pepper says that, according to her mother, witches were actually just intelligent women. Brian says that...
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...that sometimes, he wishes nuclear bombs would go off, and then they could start again. Pepper shivers and notes that if the bombs go off, they won’t be around to fix...
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...now he’ll have to go back to chasing souls, which seems pointless. Wensleydale, Brian, and Pepper feel helpless to resist Adam, while Adam isn’t thinking at all. He insists that they’ll...
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...“like a small dog in deep trouble.” Adam says that he has friends coming as Pepper sits deep in thought. Finally, she asks what bit of the world Adam gets, and...
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...gang in Tadfield. Adam points out that the Them nearly always win their skirmishes, and Pepper says that the Them are better than the Johnsonites. Adam asks his friends to imagine...
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...says that this seems awfully simple to have taken thousands of years to sort out. Pepper snaps that that’s because men were trying to sort it out, and Wensleydale accuses her...
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Meanwhile, Adam pedals along on his bike as Dog runs excitedly behind. Pepper joins Adam on her own noisy bike, and Brian and Wensleydale soon follow. Wensleydale’s bike...
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...and all the soldiers to go to sleep. The lieutenant pitches forward, and Adam tells Pepper that he’s finally learned how to hypnotize people.
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...and tells the boys that she can make them fall in love with her, but Pepper steps forward and raises a sword made from two sticks. War raises her sword too,...
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...It’d be like having to tidy up everyone’s bedroom, and he has enough work keeping Pepper, Wensleydale, and Brian entertained. Confused, the Metatron says that Adam can’t refuse to be who...
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Sunday (The first day of the rest of their lives.)
...night, but Mr. Young is certain Adam is guilty of something. Adam looks up when Pepper, Wensleydale, and Brian call his name. There’s a circus over in Norton, and they want...
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Pepper uneasily asks what happened last night. Adam says it doesn’t matter—he just tried to help,...
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