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Anthony Crowley
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| Name | Anthony Crowley |
| Age | At least 6000 years old |
| Race | Demon |
| Occupation | Demon |
| Looks | Dresses all in expensive black, dark hair, good cheekbones, golden serpentine eyes behind the ever-present sunglasses |
| Residence | London |
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| Books | Good Omens |
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Crowley - also previously known as a serpent called Crawly but changed his name after an unfortunate incident involving a man, a woman, and an apple - is a demon. But not the kind with the Baron of Hell flaming eyes, trident and all the other traditional demonic trappings. Crowley is the kind of demon who would inflict mobile phone network outages, VAT and the M25 London Orbital on the world. In this respect he considers himself more of a "big picture" demon than his peers and superiors, preferring to bring a large number of souls a little closer to Satan than to consume completely one person.
Crowley shows a healthy disdain for the anachronistic methods and narrow-sightedness of his colleagues, particularly in the way they communicate with him (which often involves inserting their words into the vocal track of a Best of Queen tape which hadn't been there a couple of weeks ago). He feels that Hell could learn a lot from humans, specifically their computer warranty agreements (a copy of which he sent to the Immortal Soul department with a note saying "Learn, guys"). As such, his closest confidant and possibly even his friend is a bookshop owner, and angel, called Aziraphale.
Crowley's hand has been subverting history since time immemorial (or 4004BC, anyway) but his most prominent appearance was in Good Omens at around the time of the almost-Apocalypse.
Crowley drives a 1926 Bentley, which he adores, to the extent that he continues to drive it even while it's on fire. Any tape left in the car for more than two weeks turns into a Best of Queen anthology. He wears sunglasses a lot.
Character Annotations
The name is derived from Aleister Crowley, an infamous occultist living in Britain in the early 20th century. The name "Anthony" refers to Anthony Rowley, the frog in one of the many poems and songs in English about a frog wooing a mouse. This is underlined by Pratchett's use of the line "Hey-ho said Anthony Crowley", which is only one letter away from the last line of the song's chorus.
He has a lot in common with another Pratchett emanation from the bowels of Hell, Astfgl (but he'd loudly deny it!).
