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Pollution is one of the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse; he took over after Pestilence’s retirement, following the invention of penicillin. As Pollution moves through the world, he leaves a trail of garbage, oil, and other dangerous refuse. He most often takes the form of a young man with long, white-blond hair and a gaunt, chalky complexion. During his time posing as a human on Earth, Pollution has had a hand in inventing the gas engine and plastics, and he’s worked in various nuclear power plants that have experienced major disasters, such as Chernobyl. In the hours before Armageddon (the end of the world) begins, Pollution receives a silver crown that tarnishes as soon as he places it on his head. In the moment that Armageddon is supposed to begin, Adam coaches Brian—the “Them” gang’s equivalent of Pollution—through vanquishing the Horseman using a makeshift crown made of grass.
Pollution/White Quotes in Good Omens
The Good Omens quotes below are all either spoken by Pollution/White or refer to Pollution/White . 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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And then it was Pigbog’s turn.
“I, uh...I think I’ll be them answer phones. They’re pretty bad,” he said.
“You can’t be ansaphones. What kind of a Biker of the Repocalypse is ansaphones? That’s stupid, that is.”
“S’not!” said Pigbog, nettled. “It’s like War, and Famine, and that. It’s a problem of life, isn’t it? Answer phones. I hate bloody answer phones.”
“I hate ansaphones, too,” said Cruelty to Animals.
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I DO NOT UNDERSTAND, he said. SURELY YOUR VERY EXISTENCE REQUIRES THE ENDING OF THE WORLD. IT IS WRITTEN.
“I dunt see why anyone has to go an’ write things like that,” said Adam calmly. “The world is full of all sorts of brilliant stuff and I haven’t found out all about it yet, so I don’t want anyone messing it about or endin’ it before I’ve had a chance to find out about it. So you can all just go away.”
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Pollution/White Quotes in Good Omens
The Good Omens quotes below are all either spoken by Pollution/White or refer to Pollution/White . 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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And then it was Pigbog’s turn.
“I, uh...I think I’ll be them answer phones. They’re pretty bad,” he said.
“You can’t be ansaphones. What kind of a Biker of the Repocalypse is ansaphones? That’s stupid, that is.”
“S’not!” said Pigbog, nettled. “It’s like War, and Famine, and that. It’s a problem of life, isn’t it? Answer phones. I hate bloody answer phones.”
“I hate ansaphones, too,” said Cruelty to Animals.
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I DO NOT UNDERSTAND, he said. SURELY YOUR VERY EXISTENCE REQUIRES THE ENDING OF THE WORLD. IT IS WRITTEN.
“I dunt see why anyone has to go an’ write things like that,” said Adam calmly. “The world is full of all sorts of brilliant stuff and I haven’t found out all about it yet, so I don’t want anyone messing it about or endin’ it before I’ve had a chance to find out about it. So you can all just go away.”
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