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War is one of the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse and the only female Horseman. When she’s posing as a human, she takes the form of a beautiful young woman with long auburn hair. Wherever she goes, fights and wars seem to arise out of nowhere. To occupy her time while she waits for Armageddon (the end of the world), she works first as an arms dealer—and later, as a war correspondent. Other war correspondents are in awe of her, as she’s somehow able to arrive to the wars before they even begin—which, of course, is because she actually starts them. The day before Armageddon is supposed to begin, War accepts a delivery of a sword. It’s unclear if she’s aware that the sword is actually the angel Aziraphale’s flaming sword, which he gave to Adam and Eve after the biblical Fall from the Garden of Eden. During Armageddon, Adam coaches War’s young human counterpart, Pepper, in doing away with her with the help of a makeshift sword made of sticks.
War/Red/Scarlett Quotes in Good Omens
The Good Omens quotes below are all either spoken by War/Red/Scarlett or refer to War/Red/Scarlett. 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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War/Red/Scarlett Quotes in Good Omens
The Good Omens quotes below are all either spoken by War/Red/Scarlett or refer to War/Red/Scarlett. 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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