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Sister Mary Loquacious/Mary Hodges
Warlock is raised as the son of the American Attaché and Mrs. Dowling—and until he turns 11, Aziraphale and Crowley believe that he’s the Antichrist. Warlock is a shy, quiet boy whom Crowley suspects from the beginning is too normal to be the Antichrist. While not wholly good and kind by any means, Warlock is afraid of lots of things, and he doesn’t seem as powerful as the Antichrist should be. In Crowley’s opinion, is just too normal. In fact, Warlock is actually the Youngs’ biological child, but he (rather than the Antichrist) ended up with the American Attaché due to a mix-up at the hospital. Crowley and Aziraphale only figure this out when the hell-hound doesn’t show up at Warlock’s 11th birthday party.
Warlock Quotes in Good Omens
The Good Omens quotes below are all either spoken by Warlock or refer to Warlock. 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
They’d come up with some stomach-churning idea that no demon could have thought of in a thousand years, some dark and mindless unpleasantness that only a fully functioning human brain could conceive, then shout “The Devil Made Me Do It” and get the sympathy of the court when the whole point was that the devil hardly ever made anyone do anything. He didn’t have to. That was what some humans found hard to understand. Hell wasn’t a major reservoir of evil, any more than Heaven, in Crowley’s opinion, was a fountain of goodness; they were just sides in the great cosmic chess game. Where you found the real McCoy, the real grace and the real heart-stopping evil, was right inside the human mind.
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Saturday Quotes
1111. An the Great Hound sharl coom, and the Two Powers sharl watch in Vane, for it Goeth where is its Master, where they Wot Notte, and he sharl name it, True to Ittes Nature, and Hell sharl flee it.
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Warlock Character Timeline in Good Omens
The timeline below shows where the character Warlock appears in Good Omens. The colored dots and icons indicate which themes are associated with that appearance.
Eleven Years Ago
Meanwhile, Harriet Dowling returns home with her baby, whom she and the Cultural Attaché named Warlock, and the Cultural Attaché advertises for a nanny. Crowley orchestrates a London tube (subway) strike...
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Nanny Ashtoreth and Mr. Francis leave when Warlock is six. Two tutors take over next: one who teaches Warlock about Atilla the Hun...
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Aziraphale isn’t concerned, but he raises an eyebrow when Crowley sighs that Warlock will hopefully know how to act when the hell-hound arrives on his 11th birthday. Hell...
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Wednesday
Warlock’s 11th birthday party in Central London is well-attended. In addition to the 47 young guests,...
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...with lace edging—which catches on the guard’s gun, sending it flying. The children clap as Warlock runs for the gun and gleefully points it at people. He pulls the trigger when...
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Saturday
...but a voice from Hell interrupts to address Crowley directly. It says that they’ve taken Warlock to the Fields of Megiddo, and he’s clearly not Satan’s son. The voice asks Crowley...
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Sunday (The first day of the rest of their lives.)
Late Sunday afternoon, Warlock is in an airplane high over England. It’s been a strange couple of days: his...
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