No one is really abandoned, but there is a fairly involved scene in which several babies are switched around at birth to different parents, and there is a baby that is left to an unspecified fate with a convent of nuns. in the book, it specifies that he gets adopted and is totally fine. in the show, he's not mentioned again.
a flashback shows a witch character brought to be burned at the stake in a comedic sequence in which she knows it's going to happen and gets back at them
There is a character who experiences a lot of abuse and mistreatment from Heaven. Despite this, they always stick up for Heaven and chooses to be a large figure in it.
(spoilers) Crowley hits a cyclist with his car, and Aziraphale tries to magically fix her bike before she realizes it's broken. When she asks why it looks different, he re-does the fix behind her back (so as not to let on that he's immortal) and insists it had never changed even though he literally DID just change it. This really unnerves her and is still technically gaslighting even though it's very mild, and he didn't mean it maliciously.
No, but there's a flashback to the 70s where people are dancing, and the background is abstract "trippy" swirling colors. This might be taken as a suggestion of drug use by some people.
Crowley drinks lots of alcohol especially when he thought that Aziraphale had died, but he is immortal so he's probably immune to all illnesses and addictions.
Although the ones that did not get on Noah’s arch technically do die (we do not see them) and the shown unicorn that runs away from it is kind of a horse with a horn…
A dove is used in a magic act and does not survive due to the owner’s poor treatment of it. The dove brought back to life and set free immediately after the owner realizes it had died.
There are many examples of such listed under the “does an animal die?” tag. Most dead animals are not shown on screen, so I will be using this particular tag to identify which ones /are/ shown.
Episode 1: A lion is slain via flaming sword; the body is shown, but the slaying is not (not graphic) A dove is briefly dead and subsequently brought back to life via miracle
Episode 4: A cartoon rabbit is slain brutally on a cinema screen. This contains animated blood, bone, and beheading. The scene is short, though. A lizard atop a demon’s head is murdered (along with the demon) via holy water; it is unclear if this lizard was alive or just an accessory
Visible briefly in opening title sequence. Additional appearance in episode 4. Confirmed in pre-release query to Neil Gaiman: https://www.tumblr.com/neil-gaiman/719023649315749888/actually-theres-a-brief-spider-animation-in
No, but water is used as a threat throughout S1 and there is an attempted execution via contact with water in S1Ep6. Earlier in the season, water kills someone on contact via a bucket on their head, but again, not drowning-- think dissolving the Wicked Witch of the West.
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There is an unconsensual and somewhat rough kiss between two characters during a conflict between the two of them. The person is then shown touching his lips in a way that seems more confused than anything else.
there's a split second shot of jesus getting nailed to the cross by his wrist with blood pooling around it. it's very fast - you can't see the blood unless you pause or are looking, but it's there
No, but similar to someone's response to the head squashing question, someone is melted by water from the top down, which can give the appearance of being "crushed": however, it is a melt instead.
No, although some characters are shown to have broken/misshapen teeth, which could still potentially be triggering depending on your personal aversions.
The animated opening credits depict an extended animated sequence of Monty Python like papercraft people all marching up a cliff and then walking off the edge.
This is a large part of the plot—three babies are switched around so that the antichrist will be raised in a specific environment. None of the babies are with their birth parents.
Yes. In Episode 3, Crowley and Aziraphale are watching Noah's family prepare the ark. Several kids run by who are not members of Noah's family. Crowley looks appalled and asks if God is going to drown kids too. "Not the kids, you can't kill kids!" But Aziraphale nods grimly.
Also, in Episode 1, it's alluded that the "extra baby" might have suffered some ominous fate, and it's never brought up again, although in the book, he has a nice childhood in Tadfield, actually does raise tropical fish, and then goes to America to start a promising pro-sports career.
Also, in episode 6, characters argue over whether the Antichrist should be assassinated even though he's just a child. It gets tense. At one point, someone aims a gun while someone else points at the boy and shouts "shoot him!" The gun is fired into the sky at the last second.
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while he doesn't actually DIE, one of the main character's physical body gets destroyed however by the end of the ordeal he has a body again
Small spoiler: The ghost of a dead man is summoned during a seance through a psychic medium. He starts out cold and scared and stuttering and then does the scary dramatic loud ghost wail thing at his wife.
MAJOR spoiler: Aziraphale is "discorporated" and arrives in heaven. He immediately returns to Earth even though his body has been destroyed and appears before Crowley as a transparent shimmery ghost.
Crowley startles a random human by spawning his own head into a snarling snake monster for half a second. (As other comments have helpfully pointed out, this happens in episode two as they approach the nunnery and are confronted by a man outside.)
No, though I would like to issue a fair warning to anyone who enters the fandom! Clowns are a running joke in the Good Omens community (especially on Twitter, where the fanbase regularly refers to themselves as clowns, as well as posting pictures of the characters with clown makeup quite frequently.) While this is not actually in the show, I think it’s still worth mentioning to those who have this as a trigger.
SPOILERS: Madame Tracy is possessed by Aziraphale. The initial possession during the seance scene can be frightening, but they end up cooperating and eventually returning to their own bodies.
Season 2 is completely safe!! There are a few scenes where characters gag, but it is always brief and not graphic at all. As of now, season 1 and 2 are 100% safe. Enjoy !!
In the first episode, a character kills a lion with a sword offscreen, but it is heard. The subtitles make it more obvious and call it a “meaty blow”.
A character also breaks her arm/wrist, but it is magically fixed. During this very brief magical fixing, some very light crunching is heard.
yep, a character is shown in a jail cell. told his head will be cut off. ( this does not happen to said character but it does to another ) And another character mentions being in jail for a period of time .
One major character changes his name by one letter early in the plot. In flashback scenes, another character is shown struggling to adapt to the change, but it is established that they do not talk often. The misnaming is unintentional.
No. Two people share a body via possession but is never referred to as DID. There are a few comments about "why are you two different people", people being startled by what appears to be rapid switching but to an extreme degree, and someone says "you shouldn't be two different people" in the finale, but he is a kid fixing a plot point.
There's a pattern where Aziraphale tries to be his earnest quirky self in peace, but the other angels repeatedly indicate that he is Weird Actually and needs Fixing. (Not autism specific, but "autism flavored" if you will.)
Adam is able to manipulate reality constantly by the end, but once it's stable it remains so for S2. Both angels and demons can do "miracles", which alter reality, usually to cause an event or get something. In S2, there is a miracle to hide someone's identity that works even when the person is face to face with their pursuers.
SPOILERS: Crowley looses his s**t at some point but get's the hang of it quite quickly (bookshop and car). It's more an expression of grief and anger than an attack -IMO. But it has similarities.
Sort of ? Someone is told to " Lose the gut " and then remarks i think more on their personality but could be interpreted as body dysphoria to some people ??
A delivery man is given instructions to commit suicide in order to deliver a message to Death. He writes a farewell note to his wife and then deliberately walks into traffic, which he previously attempted to avoid. As his spirit delivers the message, there's a close-up of his dead body in the road.
Not explicitly, but Crowley is shown to have negative effects from the treatment of Heaven and Hell. In s2, he deals with trauma from the end of s1, though calling it PTSD is just a guess.
NOTE: most fandom works depict Crowley with severe PTSD.
Episode 3: Immediately after the theme song ends, there's quick flashing of previous scenes to get back to the "present"; my suggestion would be to close your eyes as the theme song ends (around the 30:05 time mark) and you're good when the discordant music/noise ends and you hear Aziraphale say, "Sorry."....... Episode 5: Throughout the first half-hour there are flashes of celestial light similar to lightning. And off and on throughout the episode are lots of flashes of lightning (as the story progresses, the weather gets stormier)........ Episode 6: At around the 01:46 mark, the frame freezes and a choir starts vocalizing as the screen does a rewind of scenes; close your eyes at that point, and then you can re-open after the rewind sounds stop and Queen music starts playing.
A grouchy conservative character calls Aziraphale a "southern pansy" on two occasions. While this term originated within the gay community with positive connotations, he clearly meant it as a disgusted reaction to the way Aziraphale speaks and carries himself.
Crowley presents as female on two occasions, (disguised as a nanny in episode 1 and during the crucifixion in episode 3) and some viewers might feel worried about the intended message, but for those familiar with behind the scenes info, it's made very clear that Crowley is wearing those clothes as completely valid expressions of his non-binary gender.
As there is currently no such thing as a gender neutral form of address, the delivery man calling Pollution "sir" instead of "ma'am," can be seen as a way of respecting that they are more than their assigned gender. (Note: sir/ma'am is not the same type of word as Mr/Ms/Mx. You wouldn't call your neighbor Sir Jones or tell your father "yes, mister.")
Pollution, one of the four horsepersons of the apocalypse is referred to with they/them pronouns numerous times and has been confirmed to be nonbinary by Neil Gaiman on Twitter. They are destroyed in the end along with the others.
Furthermore, Ligur and a small unnamed demon are killed/melted by holy water rather horrifically. They are both known to be nonbinary since Neil has tweeted that all the angels and demons of Good Omens are nonbinary.
The smarmiest, most arrogant angel winces in mock concern, tells Aziraphale to "lose the gut," and then feints at punching him in the stomach with the cold smile of a bully pretending to be your friend.
There is a black "demon intern" type character who is killed so often it becomes a running gag. Furthermore, at least five "teams" of characters have a member who is black, and two of them die.
The black demon henchperson dies first. The black horseperson of the apocalypse dies last.
One of the characters, Shadwell, often refers to Aziraphale as a ‘southern pansy’ because he is very feminine. Pansy is often used as an insult for gay people. He also calls Madame Tracy a few misogynistic names referring to the fact that she is a part time sex worker.
This is literaly Bible fanfiction. Religion is a very large part of it. Religion is only discussed as a fact, mostly by divine beings and a few humans.
I am sex repulsed myself but I didn't find this one scene too bad to watch because of a comical undertone that the scene has. It also isn't very explicit, only their heads, shoulders and arms are shown and it's less than 30 seconds in total.
Not onscreen. Several references to a character being a sex worker who does kink, most notably in a moment played for laughs where she assumes someone is a client.
There is an angel in a wheelchair who makes several appearances in season 2. It is never pointed out and no one makes comments on it. I would consider it positive representation
I'd say so yes, the main characters are immortal beings who have seen the world rise and fall many a times. and in a clip we were shown of season 2 a main character debates "the point of it all "